Thursday, May 23, 2013

AREA LABOR DISPUTE: Demanding contract deals, Philly union workers protest at U.S. mayors' event hosted by Nutter

Hundreds of blue-collar municipal workers took to the streets Wednesday afternoon to demand that Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter settle a pair of outstanding union contracts. They intend to resume the protest Thursday.
 Members of AFSME District Council 47 and District Council 33, who have worked without a contract since 2009, say Nutter doesn't want to change that.
To highlight their disgust with his administration, employees blocked off a section of 17th Street in front of the Westin Hotel, where a U.S. Conference of Mayors event hosted by Nutter is set for Thursday and Friday.  Read more here…

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