Mayor de Blasio warned June 24 that without $1 billion in concessions from city unions, he would have no choice but to lay off or furlough 22,000 workers. Top union officials, however, reacted angrily to his announcement, saying they got virtually no notice before he revealed that worst-case scenario.
"Here is a way to think about it—for every hundred-million dollars in the city budget, that's about 2,200 city employees on average," he said. "To close a $1-billion gap would mean laying off 22,000 city employees, which is a staggering number."
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