The Municipal Labor Committee has apparently convinced Mayor de Blasio to delay sending out layoff notices that would have affected up to 22,000 city workers, with Labor Commissioner Renee Campion saying Aug. 31 that discussions will continue "on a daily basis" while waiting for Albany to decide whether to grant the city additional borrowing authority that the unions are urging.
"You have previously stated that layoffs should come only as a last resort," Harry Nespoli, chair of the MLC and president of the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association, wrote in an Aug. 24 letter. "This makes great sense given the economic and psychological pain caused to those workers and their families and the resulting diminishment of City services. We are not, though, at the point where all alternatives have been explored."
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