After an unprecedented four-year legal battle with the city's firefighters union, Mayor Nutter has raised the white flag.
"The city's financial condition has improved," Nutter said. "We can now pay the cost of this award."
Nutter's decision comes two months after the union ousted its president, consummate Nutter antagonist Bill Gault. They replaced him with Battalion Chief Joe Schulle, who ran on a platform that he could hit the reset button on the union's poisonous relationship with the administration.
Schulle did not immediately respond to a request for comment.