Putting out fires
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- December
- 31
Jobs are being saved in Yonkers, at least temporarily.
The city was able to re-jigger its finances to save Ladder Company 70 and stop the transfer Ladder Company 75. A municipal union, The Service Employees International Union voted to accept $58,000 in givebacks and reinstate four jobs of its members. It became the second union to do so.  Last week, the city’s Teamsters voted to give back a pay raise and allow the city to skip payments to the union’s welfare fund in exchange for guarantee that none of the 50 Teamsters slated to be laid off would lose their jobs.
It’s good to see unions and management working together to save some important jobs and services. But there will likely be more budget fires to put out soon and hard decisions may have to be made again.
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on Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 at 12:30 pm by Debra West.
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