Overview

• Union members voted in person from July 14 to 20 and backed the three-year agreement by roughly 64 percent, surpassing the 51 percent threshold required for ratification.
• The contract grants 3 percent annual wage increases over three years, totaling 9 percent, and awards a $1,500 bonus in the first year.
• The city will allocate $115 million to fund the pay hikes, bonus and new pay-scale steps, allowing trash pickups, libraries and pools to resume.
• Negotiators fended off city proposals to shift control of medical claims payments, impose a smokers’ surcharge and tighten sick-leave and work-rule policies.
• The ratified pact bars DC 33 from striking again until it expires in mid-2028, when the next round of negotiations will begin.