Striking city workers are joining picket lines outside Philadelphia City Hall, public libraries and other worksites as nearly 10,000 unionized employees walked off the job in search of better pay and benefits.

Philadelphia residents have been warned to brace for a largescale workers' strike designed to shut down key infrastructure, such as garbage removal, starting Tuesday.

Philadelphia's largest blue-collar union, AFSCME District Council 33, initiated a strike due to unsuccessful wage negotiations with the city, marking their first major strike in nearly four decades. The strike,