Communications Workers of America Local 1180 has agreed to defer scheduled city payments totaling $15.9 million to its welfare fund for both active employees and retirees until late next year in return for a no-layoff guarantee that will extend at least through next June 30 to produce savings for the city in the current fiscal year.
The agreement, announced by both the union and city officials Nov. 12, continues as series of deals under which municipal unions have deferred either back wages, scheduled pay increases, or city contributions to their benefit funds to meet Mayor de Blasio's demand for $1 billion in savings that he said was necessary to avoid up to 22,000 layoffs.
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