District Council 33
Slight Cool Down Between Nutter, Unions Day After Scuttled Budget Address
For Mayor Nutter and the two non-uniformed city worker unions, the day after Nutter’s scuttled budget address saw only a slight cooling-down of the rhetoric.
Were Anti-Nutter Hecklers Paid With Sick Days?
Hundreds of city workers whistled, jeered and shouted at the mayor as he tried to deliver his speech in City Council on Thursday.
Protesters Take To The Streets During Mayor Nutter’s Budget Address
Hundreds of union city workers rallied outside of city hall as Mayor Nutter finished his budget address.
Unions Rally Opposition Ahead of Nutter’s Budget Speech
More than 15,000 city workers, including firemen, have been working without a contract for four years, and private-sector union workers came out Tuesday to show solidarity.
Nutter Prepared for Union Jeers When He Delivers New Budget
The city’s two non-uniformed unions, District Councils 33 and 47, will be there in full force at the budget speech Thursday to voice their displeasure with the long-stalled contract talks.
Nutter Administration Hoping To Derail Court Fight With City’s Blue-Collar Union
Mayor Michael Nutter is asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to take up the question of whether he can impose a new contract on the city’s blue-collar workers’ union.
Nutter Will Ask for Court OK to Impose Work Rules on City Workers’ Union
The mayor announced he’s going to court to get a judge’s permission to impose the terms of his “final” contract offer. The union says it still wants to negotiate.
Deadline Passes With No Deal For City’s Blue Collar Union
The two sides met for about an hour and a half and broke close to 10:30 p.m. at the downtown Sheraton. Still no deal, and the deadline the mayor set two weeks ago passed.
Philadelphia, Blue-Collar Union Head For Showdown As Negotiations Stall
Wednesday was the deadline set by Mayor Nutter for the blue-collar city workers’ union to respond to what he calls his “final offer” in the long-running contract talks.
Philadelphia Unions Bring Anti-Nutter Protest to Mayors’ Meeting in D.C.
With Nutter inside the Capitol Hilton, serving as president of the US Conference of Mayors, AFSCME International had a little anti-Nutter protest outside.
City Workers, Calling Nutter a Grinch, Demand Progress on Contract Talks
They even devised a song for the occasion.
Perhaps Signaling Unions, Philadelphia Gives Some Nonunion Workers 2.5% Hikes
The mayor’s aides deny the move is meant to ratchet up pressure on the two municipal unions that have been without a contract since 2009.
City Council Urges Nutter To Settle With Philadelphia’s Non-Uniformed City Workers
Members of Philadelphia’s two non-uniformed city workers’ unions packed into City Council chambers on Thursday and got a vote of support from the lawmakers in their effort to get a new contract.
Philadelphia City Workers Angered Over Mayor’s Budget Priorities
The union representing blue-collar municipal workers in Philadelphia says, after three years with no new contract, it’s time the mayor gets serious about their negotiations.
District Council 33 Airs Nutter Attack ADs To Highlight Failed Negotiations
The largest of Philadelphia’s four city worker unions is turning up the heat on Mayor in long-stalled contract negotiations. They’re running anti-Nutter ads, including one to air during Saturday’s TV broadcast of the Phillies spring training game.
