Workers will have to vote on the deal reached on the ninth day of the Philadelphia strike before it is official.

A tentative agreement has put a stop to the piles of trash left by striking sanitation workers, but whether union members will vote to ratify the new deal remains to be seen.

Union President Greg Boulware briefly spoke with reporters after the deal was reached. “We did the best we could with the circumstances we had in front of us,” he said.