{"id":4344,"date":"2011-06-09T05:48:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T09:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2011-06-09T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T15:21:09","slug":"morning-read-another-wave-of-state-job-cuts-looming-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/09\/morning-read-another-wave-of-state-job-cuts-looming-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: Another wave of state job cuts looming in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve observed here many times, the North Country is particularly susceptible to the winds of fortune in Albany.\u00a0 State jobs are a mainstay of the region&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Cuomo-orders-pink-slips-to-begin-July-15-1416271.php\">Albany Times-Union<\/a> is reporting this morning that Governor Andrew Cuomo is setting July 15th as the target date to lay off as many as 9,8oo workers.\u00a0 But we could know much sooner which positions are set to be cut.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[A]ccording to a memo obtained by the Times Union&#8230;starting Monday, specific jobs slated for layoff will be  declared agency-by-agency by the state Budget Division so that  individuals in those positions who have greater seniority have the  option of transferring to jobs that are not planned for\u00a0elimination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>The lay-offs are slated to happen in waves, and it appears that the governor is using this threat as part of his negotiations with public employee unions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cuomo has demanded $450 million in salary and benefit concessions, along with changes to pension rules.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This news comes as the North Country awaits word of which prisons state officials plan to mothball.\u00a0 So what do you think?\u00a0 Are we facing another big economic speed bump?\u00a0 Or can the region absorb these cuts?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve observed here many times, the North Country is particularly susceptible to the winds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}