Mayor Cherelle L. Parker on Friday night reached a one-year contract extension with the city’s biggest union for municipal workers, ending a months-long standoff and averting a strike that could have halted city services like trash collection.

The largest municipal employee union in Philadelphia, District Council 33, confirms they have reached an agreement with the City of Philadelphia, averting an authorized strike.

The largest municipal workers union reaches an historic agreement with Philadelphia city leaders while vowing to continue to negotiate for multi-year contract.

GLOUCESTER - One of three teacher strikes on the North Shore of Massachusetts is over. The Gloucester School Committee said it has reached a tentative agreement with the union on a new contract, and students and teachers will be back in class on Monday.

After being out of the classroom for more than two weeks, students in Gloucester, one of the three North Shore communities hit with a teachers’ strike, will return to school on Monday.

Gloucester students will be back in school Monday after the teacher strike ended while teachers remain on the picket line in Marblehead and Beverly. WBZ-TV's Tammy Mutasa reports.