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Specific city layoffs threatened
By neilv on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 9:28am
Globe reports:
Mayor Thomas M. Menino today will propose laying off 565 city workers, including public school teachers, police officers, and librarians, cutbacks that Boston officials said are needed to help balance the $2.4 billion city budget. [...] Signori said that if more unions agree to wage freezes and if stimulus money arrives in time, some jobs slated for elimination in the mayor's budget could be saved.
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Keep in mind that about 225 of these jobs are in the school department (excluding the 134 teachers) and are primarily due to the closing of 6 schools. We are not closing schools due to budget shortfalls - we are closing schools because the average number of students per elementary/middle school grade has fallen almost 20% over the past 10 years while we have expanded the number of schools in the city (high schools will follow over the next 4 years as the bubble in the student population ages out). The mayor is using the fiscal crisis for political cover on something that should have been done years ago. This is probably a fraction of what needs to happen over the next several years.
When inflation is running at zero and you hand out 5% raises, 7% pension increases and 12% health care cost increases - something's got to give.
Layoffs
How could it be that no firefighters were slated no layoffs! No one?
Flaherty: Cut from the neck up
Flaherty's response:
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