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Post by fakelottotix on Feb 16, 2014 14:59:40 GMT -5
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Post by fakelottotix on Feb 16, 2014 15:01:19 GMT -5
Al: IT'S TIME FOR COMPROMISE AND CONCESSIONS,Union leaders should be thinking only about how to avoid layoffs. They shouldn’t be thickheaded and force Long Islanders to be held hostage by higher tax rates.
The time for concessions is now!
The situation is so grave that without union cooperation, layoffs may be only the beginning of more drastic action.
Al D’Amato, a former U.S. senator from New York, is the founder of Park Strategies LLC, a public policy and business development firm. Comments about this column? ADAmato@liherald.com
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Post by fakelottotix on Feb 16, 2014 15:16:49 GMT -5
Sorry, this article was from 2011, it had a date from January 2014 on the webpage. It's an interesting read especially since his argument is the same as mine, except from the complete opposite point of view. This is the first 2 paragraphs: It’s no secret that Nassau County is going through a rough fiscal period. The county faces an estimated $310 million deficit in 2012. County Executive Ed Mangano is still paying for the previous administrations’ unaffordable labor contracts, the assessment system is broken and the global recession has hit everyone, including Nassau County.
Now is not the time for business as usual.
It's 3 years later, our contracts have been frozen for that entire time, the assessment system has been tweaked but it certainly isn't fixed, the Global Recession hit everybody except the members on the NIFA Board and Governor Andy HUD Cuomo, the very people that caused the crisis..Newsrag has provided a ton of patronage examples, pay for play politics, King Ed's disciplinarian Commissioner was ousted in a scandal...and the list goes on and on...so I agree with Al on that statement... NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR BUSINESS AS USUAL. Come on Jimmy, I hear you're working hard on a deal...don't let it sway you from taking on the big fight. Even if we can make a deal, use all of the information the members have provided you, bring it to Federal Court and DEMAND THAT THEY HONOR OUR CONTRACT! I am begging you.
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Post by fakelottotix on Feb 16, 2014 15:23:28 GMT -5
I apologize in advance if anyone feels this belongs on the NIFA discussion board. To me, this fight against our unions, pensions and benefits has an affect on new hires, current employees and retirees. It is bigger than the NIFA issue. This fight has National implications and its being fought behind closed doors instead of being a HEADLINE story across the country.
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