While city workers seeking livable wages and residents needing basic city services are facing difficult situations, there is another group of Philadelphians for whom the ongoing American Federation of State,

PHILADELPHIA -- A strike being staged by nearly 10,000 city workers in Philadelphia entered its second day Wednesday as a judge ordered some emergency service dispatchers and essential water department employees to return to work.

Mayor Cherelle Parker said the city would suspend residential trash collection and close some city pools but vowed to keep the city running.