{"id":236178,"date":"2026-07-05T18:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236178\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:21:07","slug":"peco-union-officials-report-assault-allegations-against-picketers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236178\/","title":{"rendered":"PECO union officials report assault allegations against picketers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 In a statement issued Saturday, PECO union officials said three picketers were involved in physical altercations, including one member who was pushed to the ground by PECO security at a facility on Oregon Avenue, and two others struck by vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>PECO disputed the allegations, calling them &#8220;completely false.&#8221; The company said, based on its own investigation into the incidents, it determined the picketers fell on their own and weren&#8217;t hit by any vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>PECO said it hopes to move forward through the use of a federal mediator who has been assigned to the case. <\/p>\n<p>Union leaders said picketers will be out in force again Sunday until a deal is reached. <\/p>\n<p>Close to 20,000 PECO customers were without power at one point Saturday evening from York to Philadelphia after heavy thunderstorms rolled across Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p>PECO&#8217;S largest union, IBEW Local 614, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/midnight-strike-imminent-peco-workers-july-4-weekend\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has been on strike since midnight Saturday<\/a>. The union said negotiations are scheduled to resume at about 10 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 In a statement issued Saturday, PECO union officials said three picketers were involved in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12560,69,71,70,2957,4500],"class_list":["post-236178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-peco","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-strike","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236178","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=236178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}