Mountains of trash are piling up in parts of Philadelphia as a strike by blue-collar city workers nears a fourth day.
Sanitation workers are among the DC33 union members on the picket line, which means residential trash collection stopped when the strike was called at midnight Tuesday.
The latest round of negotiations began Wednesday but ended without a deal. There’s no word on when talks would resume.
Mayor Cherelle Parker said during a news conference that the city offered to return to the negotiating table, but the union did not accept.
Shortly before that news conference, a judge ordered workers from the city medical examiner’s office to return to work.
City officials said the strike was causing a delay in retrieving dead bodies and releasing bodies from the morgue to families.
At least one arrest has been made in connection with the strike.
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