Sorry, rats. The "Parker piles" of trash found around the city are about to disappear. Philadelphia’s first major city worker strike since 1986 lasted eight days and four hours before Mayor Cherelle L.

Mayor Cherelle Parker was not at a press conference Monday discussing the ongoing DC 33 strike, which is causing trash to pile up around the city.

A union representing thousands of city workers in Philadelphia and the city have reached a deal to end a more than weeklong strike that halted residential curbside trash pickup and affected other services,