Union president Greg Boulware stepped out of a conference room in a community college campus in West Philadelphia and sat down to huddle with the team he had assembled to tangle with Mayor Cherelle L.

Negotiations are paused between DC 33 and the City of Philadelphia as the city's largest strike in nearly 40 years continues.

Mayor Cherelle Parker is trying to end the DC33 union worker strike by Fourth of July with both the carrot and stick approaches. Here’s how.