The Bloomberg administration and the city?s largest municipal union, District Council 37, have reached a tentative 32-month contract that gives union members raises totaling 10 percent and ends a requirement that they live in the city, union leaders said yesterday. Reached late Wednesday night, the settlement is the first in a new citywide round of bargaining with dozens of unions, and it could set a pattern for future deals.
See "Biggest New York Municipal Union Gets Contract", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, July 13, 2006