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The leadership of Philadelphia City Council is getting together early this week to figure out whether all 17 members should say "no thanks" to a five percent cost-of-living increase, due to automatically kick in on Tuesday.
Under a 2003 ordinance, city council set up the automatic raise - the COLA, cost of living adjustments - are based on the consumer price index. Councilwoman Maria Quinones Sanchez says the financial crisis should guide them:
"We need to do whatever we have to do to freeze this, and in light of what we're asking, not only our workforce to do but our unions to do."
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