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Local municipal employees in Philadelphia voted in favor of strike authorization earlier this week. Workers are represented by District Council 33, and the union covers over nine thousand municipal employees. The previous contract between the union and the city government ended in July, and workers have been working without one. District Council 33 stated that previous proposals from the city government would only raise employee wages by fifty dollars per pay period, and did not address any other issues that the union has brought up. The union claimed that the city government was not negotiating in good faith, but the city government countered that negotiations between the two parties would continue and an agreement would eventually be reached.