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

Mayor Cherelle Parker reinforced her vision of balancing deserved raises to city workers with staying on budget as she ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A tentative agreement has put a stop to the piles of trash left by striking sanitation workers, but whether union members ...

Sarah Giskin is a Former AFSCME DC 47 & Unity Caucus Member. The following article was written while the strike was on-going.