Posted on Tue, Jun. 30, 2009
NOW THAT Mayor Nutter has gotten a budget passed by City Council, the next major challenge is negotiating new contacts for more than 20,000 municipal workers.
Although the contracts technically expired on June 30th, municipal employees will continue working under an extension that will keep in the place the current terms of the agreement.
Wages and benefits for city workers cost $2.3 billion last year, about 60 percent of the general-fund budget.
Everyone has a lot vested in the outcome of these negotiations. For more on the stakes, check out the editorial on Page 17. And visit www.ourmoneyphilly.com and let us know what you think about contracts for city workers.
Attached here, you can find details of compensation and benefits for the four major unions that represent city employees. We've also included what happened during the last round of contract negotiations and the current proposal being offered by the city.
We compiled this information through requests to the unions, the city's Personnel Department and a new report on employee benefits released by the Pew Charitable Trusts. *
Ben Waxman reports for "It's Our Money," a joint project of the Daily News and WHYY, funded by the William Penn Foundation. See www.ourmoneyphilly.com.
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