The Philadelphia teachers' union on Wednesday said it would recommend that its members take a one-year pay freeze and make cost-saving changes in health benefits - a proposal that was quickly condemned by both the school district and Mayor Nutter as vague and woefully inadequate.
"What was announced today lacks any detail," Nutter said in a statement. "More to the point, it appears to be very far from the work-rule changes and $103 million in savings that the district needs."
Jerry Jordan, president of the 15,000-member Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, said the proposal would save the district "millions" but declined to be specific or say if it would be anywhere near the $103 million in concessions the district is demanding. The union, he said, is adamantly against wage cuts.
School district officials were unimpressed.
Source: Philly.com
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