City Strike Is Over Trash Pick Up To Resume Next Week



by Alex Lloyd Gross

The city trash strike is over. It lasted almost two weeks but you wold not know it by the amount of trash dumped at the city sites. People from all over saw this as an opportunity to skirt waste disposal fees and dump trash like furniture and other stuff not designed to be left there. At times this was done in the middle of the night, other times, it was in broad daylight.

Photographer Keith Fisher caught a couple from Trevose dumping large items at the Calera Road Site. The woman is wearing a Bux-Mont Branch 920 shirt. a simple Google search shows the organization is in Trevose they are listed as employees. Their Facebook page lists their hometown as Trevose. If that is the case, they have no business dumping trash at that site.

Keith J Fisher Special To Delaware Valley News.com People that may reside in Bucks County dump trash at the Philly site On Red Lion Road.

Mayor Cherelle Parker said that the city will give an increase of 14 percent over the term she is mayor, spread out over her term. “We value out city workers,” Parker said. The strikers should be off the picket line and back to work soon.

Regular trash delivery is going to restart Monday July 14, 2025 city officials said. They are working to clean the dump sites and people have made other, non official sites which will be cleaned as well. People are urged to call 311 to report those sites.

In the meantime, trashcan be dropped off at any of the six city sanitation yards, like State Road and Ashburner Street in the northeast.

The deal includes the first year of the three-year deal includes a 3% pay increase plus a $1,500 bonus.

There will be additional 3% pay increases in the second and third years.

Alex Lloyd Gross File Photo Delaware Valley News.com Mayor Parker and Streets Department workers in happier times, just after she took office.

In addition, there is a fifth-step increase in the pay scale. Parker said that means an additional 2% pay increase for half of DC33’s members right away, while a total 80% of the union’s members will have it by the end of the contract. The contract proposal still has to be ratified.