Least Sympathetic Group Of People In The World About To Solicit Your, Uh, Sympathy
They’re called City Employees, and if they strike — and they could — it will be full-blown armageddon time in Philly: Trash won’t get picked up, potholes won’t get fixed, your important forms and papers will not be filed, and… it will be just like it is now. Only with more public union groaning, which is already ramping up. Here’s Pete Matthews, head of the largest union, District Council 33, who, more than anything, wants you to know that he does not like the cut of Mayor Michael Nada‘s jib:
“I just don’t like the way the mayor has been operating. It seems like the mayor wants to dictate terms instead of sitting down and negotiating. [...] We don’t stand for concessions.
So, wait: You want to sit down and negotiate, but you will not stand for concessions, which are the reasonable and expected and, in fact, defining outcome of any successful negotiation. And you work for the City. Got it. Thanks.
June 18th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
So lemme see if i got this…
the Mayor doesn’t want to sit and the Union doesn’t want to stand.
Got it.
June 18th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Maybe they could meet in the middle and lean against things.
June 18th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
I guess those will be the days I will be glad the City refuses to obey a Court Order to pick up our condo’s trash and instead we have to pay $80ks a year to do have it done privately.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
@ChitChat. False. The City agreed to collect trash at condos, on a weekly basis, like everyone else. Condo owners mostly refused.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Mayor Street did not comply with the Order to pick up our trash. Did it change under Nutter and I missed it? You mean people in Philly only get their trash picked up once a week? We have 800 units that would be crazy.
June 19th, 2009 at 12:02 am
@chitchat after today, i will be reading your comments with a totally new perspective
June 19th, 2009 at 10:25 am
@chitchat- Yes, Street did. Condo owners turned him down, based on the once a week thing.
June 19th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
I stand corrected: this is what I got back from the condo board today: “once a week sounds familiar. it wouldn’t work for us; we wanted a store credit. they said no, from what i recall”
Thanks. What the heck, we should have the City do one pick up and the bldg pay the other and we can slash that budget in half. I’m calling for a Condo Town Hall Meeting next week.