Fight against Nutter's proposal for city staffers expands to nearly all unionized Pennsylvania workers

The city filed suit Feb. 1 in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, seeking permission to impose its most recent offer on about 6,800 members of AFSCME District Council 33. The package includes reduced pensions for new employees, the right to furlough employees for up to three weeks a year, and new work rules to cut overtime, combined with pay raises totaling 4.5 percent over the next two years.  Read more here…