The Nation : Philadelphia Hit by Strike
More than 15,000 Philadelphia city employees and about 5,000 municipal hospital workers went on strike as contracts expired. Those on strike varied from garbage collectors and police dispatchers to museum workers and school crossing guards. National Guard troops were put on standby alert. The municipal strike was the first since an eight-day walkout in 1978, when garbage piled up on city streets and police were called into city prisons to maintain order. The walkout threatened to disrupt city operations during planned Fourth of July celebrations.
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