GMCS Editorial: Industry rumors indicate that AFSCME District
Council 33, has already announced that contract negotiations between the Union
and the City of Philadelphia are set to resume on Friday February 28, 2014 at
2:00 pm at the Philadelphia Sheraton on 17th Street and Race Street and may
continue, around the clock if necessary, until a fair contract settlement is
reached.
Pete Matthews, the president of AFSCME District Council 33,
got on the phone with a reporter Wednesday but declined to say anything pro or
con about the city's tentative pact with the smaller AFSCME bargaining unit,
District Council 47.
“This is all I’m gonna say about that: all contract negotiations are different. Police is different from Fire, DC 33 is
different from DC 47,” Matthews said.
“We’re going back into negotiations Friday.”
Matthews and other DC 33 leaders met for several hours last
Friday with the city’s negotiating team, for the first time in a year. He reported “some movement” between the two
sides, but nothing significant.
Source: Philly.com
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