{"id":227495,"date":"2026-06-25T03:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227495\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T03:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:42:11","slug":"peco-workers-to-announce-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227495\/","title":{"rendered":"PECO workers to announce strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The largest union of PECO workers is set to announce its members are going on strike, which will be the first work stoppage in PECO&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Members of IBEW Local 614 have been without a contract since April 1 and are expected to announce a strike Thursday morning, because they say their demands are not being taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Workers want better pay and improved retirement benefits.<\/p>\n<p>PECO has previously said the utility is prepared to handle a strike and ratepayers do not need to worry about a work stoppage disrupting service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The largest union of PECO workers is set to announce its members are going&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2561,12560,69,71,70,2957],"class_list":["post-227495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-labor-unions","tag-peco","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}