A labor union wants the City of Chicago to abandon its legal defense of a plan to deal with its troubled pension systems.
The City was sued by some unions over a plan to reduce pension costs. Like pay increases city workers get in retirement.
Anders Lindall is a spokesman for one of the unions suing the city called AFSCME. He says the city’s lawyers should drop their legal defense of their pension changes, after a recent Supreme Court decision struck down similar plans for state pension funds.
"Stopping in the waste of time and money in litigating them."
The City of Chicago’s top lawyer says there are some legal difference between the city’s pension plans and the state’s, and he wants the Supreme Court to hear those arguments on an expedited scheduled.