By Claudia Vargas – City Controller Alan Butkovitz thinks he has a solution for Philadelphia’s staggeringly underfunded pension fund: buyouts. Butkovitz is proposing that the city offer up-front cash payments to retirees, who, if they took the option, would surrender…
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Proposal: city workers surrender pensions, get cash buyout – City Controller Alan Butkovitz thinks he has a solution for Philadelphia’s staggeringly underfunded pension fund: buyouts. Butkovitz is proposing that the city offer up-front cash payments to retirees, who, if they…
Minority-owned contractor gets big job for Democrats
By Jane M. Von Bergen – Angelo R. Perryman was a 32-year-old African American working in construction in Detroit when contractors building the Convention Center tapped him for a key job in the early 1990s. As part of a mandate…
Kenney, legislators, union leaders back city-tax reform plan
By Joseph N. DiStefano Mayor Kenney joined business groups, construction and janitors’ union leaders, and state legislators from both parties Friday to endorse a tax-reform plan backed by Center City’s biggest office landlord. A bill sponsored by State Reps. John…
Assembly leader wants union contracts protected in Atlantic City takeover plan
By Joe Hernandez – The leader of New Jersey’s Assembly said he will block any bid to take over Atlantic City that gives the state the ability to cancel collective bargaining agreements. Speaker Vincent Prieto, D-Hudson, said any attempt to…
