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Garbage Collectors Strike of 1938

Episode 33

While private sector employees in Philadelphia had been seeing huge union wins throughout the 1930s, municipal workers were largely left out. This would all change in 1938 when garbage collectors brought the city to a standstill in a weeks long strike. 

Originally aired: September 5, 2022.

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