{"id":4878,"date":"2011-09-27T15:38:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T19:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4878"},"modified":"2011-09-29T09:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T13:21:10","slug":"after-union-vote-ny-will-lay-off-3000-public-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/09\/27\/after-union-vote-ny-will-lay-off-3000-public-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"After union vote, NY will lay off 3,000 public workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state&#8217;s second largest union, the Public Employees Federation, has rejected the contract deal negotiated with the state by its leadership.\u00a0 The<a href=\"http:\/\/timesunion.com\/\"> Albany Times-Union<\/a> is reporting that the vote is expected to trigger 3,000 lay-offs statewide.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With layoffs now looming, PEF workers who are the lowest in seniority  will be getting notices of their impending firing shortly. The layoffs  will take place across the state, but should hit some areas particularly  hard including the Capital Region  since some 17,000 PEF members live  there. There also are about 5,000 in New York City and 4,200 on Long  Island.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have good data on PEF membership and\/or vulnerability in the North Country, but this will certainly affect some positions in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state&#8217;s second largest union, the Public Employees Federation, has rejected the contract deal negotiated [&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\/4878"}],"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=4878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}