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Court Officers’ Head: Won’t Take Furloughs Or Health-Cost Hikes

By MARK TOOR
Posted 9/9/11

Dennis Quirk doesn’t like it, but he thinks upcoming contract talks with the state court system could result in a wage freeze for his Court Officers and other union employees. But he won’t accept furloughs, which were part of the deal ratified by the largest state-employee union to avert thousands of layoffs, or increased health costs. “Over my dead body,” he said in a recent interview.

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