Parker is asking AFSCME DC 33 to consider the 5% raises they won last year and her signature housing plan as part of her commitment to city workers.

A union representing thousands of city workers in Philadelphia and the city have reached a deal to end a more than weeklong strike that halted residential curbside trash pickup and affected other services,

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