{"id":3197,"date":"2025-10-16T03:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3197\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:34:18","slug":"upper-darby-reaches-agreement-with-municipal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3197\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Darby reaches agreement with municipal workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The township said in a press release the new agreement includes wage increases and other compensatory benefits in exchange for workers contributing more toward health benefits.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe negotiations were very productive, and I appreciate the earnest effort from both parties in balancing the needs of our employees with those of the taxpayers,\u201d said Crandall Jones, Upper Darby Township\u2019s chief administrative officer, in a press release.\n<\/p>\n<p>The township asserted the agreement improves Upper Darby\u2019s \u201cfiscal position.\u201d TWU Local 234 did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<a name=\"Section1\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The new contract takes effect Jan. 1 and runs through December 2027.\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The township said in a press release the new agreement includes wage increases and other compensatory benefits in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[212,2933,2934,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-delaware-county","tag-government-employees","tag-unions","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}