Sentences with phrase «big givebacks»

He said he hopes the fiscal crisis will inspire 1199 and other unions to negotiate real savings, just as municipal unions agreed to big givebacks that helped save New York City during the 1970s fiscal crisis.

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While insisting that state's economic challenges required employee givebacks, the administration ignored all union ideas, big and small for saving money and improving government operations.
Gov. Paterson and the state's two biggest labor unions reached a deal yesterday to avoid layoffs and employee givebacks in exchange for buyouts and more modest retirement benefits.
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