The agreement between Mayor Daniel Lurie’s administration and six unions covers more than two-thirds of the city’s public workforce. Among the participating groups are SEIU Local 1021, IFPTE Local 21 and the Municipal Executives Association. Their members include workers ranging from plumbers to professional and technical engineers.

The job guarantee applies to permanent civil-service employees: the city will not issue layoff notices to or lay off those workers through June 2029. It does not cover every employee represented in the agreement. Municipal Executives Association Executive Director Criss Romero said some managers and other staff, including certain executive assistants and secretaries, are exempt from civil-service status. Those workers are still eligible for the raises.

Vince Courtney, a business representative for the Northern California District Council of Laborers, called the layoff protection unusually strong, saying he had not seen a similar provision in 25 years of labor work. Romero said the raises would offer exempt employees “some sense of security.”

The agreement follows months of tension over the city budget. In April, after Lurie proposed layoffs, union leaders said they would oppose them; in May, unions threatened a strike. Romero described the new deal as an effort to bring labor peace, while cautioning that workplace issues will continue to arise under any contract.

The vote secures raises and near-term job protections for a large share of the city workforce, though the layoff guarantee’s limits mean some union-represented employees remain outside its coverage.