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.
Not exact matches
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.