The deal, which must be ratified by members, will cost approximately $92 million over the course of five years.

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.

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.

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.

The union represents administrators at City Hall, the PPA and the housing authority. The results of its vote, which concluded ...

The TA was announced in order to break the powerful eight day work stoppage, the largest municipal strike in the city in ...

Philadelphia’s largest municipal workers' union, AFSCME District Council 33, will begin voting on the tentative agreement reached with the city.