Union approves contract with city -Philadelphia news

PHILADELPHIA- August 19, 2008 - Action News was at Benjamin Franklin High School in North Philadelphia Tuesday night as members of district council 47 arrived for the ratification vote.

The one-year contract gives each union member an 11-hundred dollar signing bonus, in lieu of a pay raise.

The city will continue to pay 976 dollars a month toward each worker's health care plan.


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