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Philadelphia’s municipal workers are voicing anger at their unions, AFSCME District Councils 33 and 47, charging that union ...
Kim Paymaster was a tad stressed over the Fourth of July weekend. She had family with small children staying over, her water heater was broken, and the local city pool was closed, so her daughter and ...
The tentative deal between the city and AFSCME District Council 47 still needs to be approved by union members. It includes smaller pay raises than what the union initially sought.
Mayor Cherelle Parker is calling a tentative contract agreement with District Council 47 a fiscally responsible deal for the city. The union represents more than 6,000 city workers, including those at ...
Labor expert Francis Ryan puts the now-ended DC 33 work stoppage into context, both historically — and for Philadelphia's future ...
When over 200 city workers were laid off in September 1938, city workers called a week-long sanitation strike. Street battles raged in West Philadelphia when strikers blocked police-escorted trash ...
AFSCME District Council 47 and Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, ...
The contract agreement, coupled with an extension to the last deal, would increase the pay of the city's white collar workers ...
DC 47, the union that represents 6,000 city workers, including the PPA and the Housing Authority, has reached a tentative agreement with the city.
A Philadelphia union representing thousands of white-collar municipal workers reached a tentative contract agreement with ...
The City of Philadelphia and District Council 47 reached a tentative agreement on a three-year contract to avoid yet another strike.
Residential trash pickup resumed in Philadelphia on Monday, nearly two weeks after 9,000 members of District Council 33 went on strike.