{"id":4957,"date":"2011-10-17T06:29:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T10:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4957"},"modified":"2011-10-17T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:49:05","slug":"morning-read-thousands-of-pef-lay-offs-averted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/17\/morning-read-thousands-of-pef-lay-offs-averted\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Thousands of PEF lay-offs averted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20111017\/NEWS03\/710179937\/-1\/news\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting this morning that thousands of lay-offs may be averted thanks to a deal with Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Public Employee Federation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Public Employees Federation says it has reached a tentative  agreement with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that would save thousands of jobs in  the state.<\/p>\n<p>About 3,500 workers in the 55,000-member union have  been in limbo for three weeks after the governor sent 3,496 layoff  notices, effective Oct. 19. The layoff notices were sent after the  union\u2019s membership rejected an original contract offer in September. One  hundred workers in Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties received layoff  notices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20111017\/NEWS03\/710179937\/-1\/news\">According to the WDT<\/a>, lay-offs have been delayed to Nov. 4th so that the two sides have time to work out the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting this morning that thousands of lay-offs may be averted [&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\/4957"}],"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=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4958,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions\/4958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}