If Toldeo’s City Council rejects implementing a contract, according to WTOL, layoffs may be right around the corner:
“There will be layoffs across the board in all departments, it’ll take place by the end of the year so we can begin 2012 with a balanced budget. It’s in council’s hands as to what happens,” said Deputy Mayor Steve Herwat. “Even though our income tax receipts are up, we have other revenues that have not kept pace, for example cuts in the local government fund have an impact on us.”
Even though union members rejected the fact finder report which called for wage freezes and workers paying more for health care and retirement benefits, those concessions are viewed as a must for Local 7 and other bargaining units within the city.
“We either implement concessions or we lay off people and cut services,” said Herwat.
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