An educator urges his counter-parts in other cities to draw the lessons from the betrayal in Chicago and wage a ...

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 ...

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.

DC 47, the union that represents 6,000 city workers, including the PPA and the Philadelphia Housing Authority, has reached a tentative agreement with the city.

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 ...