The Inquirer. But it’s far from clear that leaders of that union — the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 47, which represents white-collar city workers — are itching for an opportunity to walk off the job and join their colleagues in the much larger blue-collar union,

A strike by nearly 10,000 city workers in Philadelphia has stretched into a third day. Trash continued to pile up Thursday in some areas, and a judge ordered more than 30 Medical Examiner’s Office staffers back to work because of a growing backlog of bodies in storage.

Sanitation workers in Philadelphia could go on strike as soon as Tuesday, stopping regular residential trash pickup in the city.