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For the second time in a week, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker stood with her team at a podium at the Mayor’s Reception Room in City ...
A Philadelphia union representing thousands of white-collar municipal workers reached a tentative contract agreement with ...
Mayor Cherelle Parker reinforced her vision of balancing deserved raises to city workers with staying on budget as she ...
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 contract agreement, coupled with an extension to the last deal, would increase the pay of the city's white collar workers ...
The deal for the city's white-collar workers union is similar to one the Parker Administration reach last with District ...
The City of Philadelphia and District Council 47 reached a tentative agreement on a three-year contract to avoid yet another strike.
AFSCME District Council 47, which represents about 6,000 workers at City Hall, the PPA, PHA and other city agencies, voted on whether to strike as it sought a new deal with the city. On Tuesday ...
As members of AFSCME District Council 33 vote this week to accept a contract deal with the city, results of AFSCME DC 47’s ...
Philadelphia’s first major city workers strike since 1986 lasted eight days and four hours before Mayor Cherelle L. Parker ...
Sarah Giskin is a Former AFSCME DC 47 & Unity Caucus Member. The following article was written while the strike was on-going.
The TA was announced in order to break the powerful eight day work stoppage, the largest municipal strike in the city in ...