The Citizens Budget Commission, the business-funded fiscal watchdog known for taking a bite out of municipal workers' hides whenever an opportunity exists to reduce city payroll costs, is on the same page with municipal unions in its opposition to layoffs as a way of saving $1 billion.
In virtually all other respects, however, the CBC 's remedies for what ails the city are sure to raise labor's hackles, as it urges savings from matters affecting all city workers—by requiring them to pay a portion of their health-care premiums—to those affecting small percentages of the workforce, such as renegotiating the two-worker truck differential negotiated 40 years ago for Sanitation Workers.
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