Now that City Council has approved Michael Nutter's first budget proposal, the next big item on the agenda is negotiating new contracts for city workers. It's Our Money took a look at past contracts and published an analysis in today's Philadelphia Daily News.
Contracts for city workers are incredibly important and have huge implications for how our tax dollars are spent. Nutter will have to negotiate contracts with more than 20,000 city workers from four different city unions. Wages and benefits for city employees amount for $2.3 billion or 60% of the total city budget.
We'll have a link to the Daily News piece shortly, but in the meantime, we wanted to provide readers with the full contracts for both AFSCME DC 33 and AFSCME DC 47. Click on either of those links to download a PDF of the last memoradoum of agreement between the two unions and the city.