April 27, 2009

MAPE stays worldwide with costliness of furloughs

Last week, MAPE negotiators used the fact that furloughs will cost the taxpayers of Minnesota more than $4 million to get the governor's team to drop the furlough issue from contract negotiations. Now, the New York Times picked up the information for an article titled, "To save money, states turn to furloughs," in the April 24 issue. The New York Times wrote (sixth paragraph):

Furloughs of public employees can affect critical services like police and fire protection, prison guard duty and hospital care. Unions in Minnesota say that proposed furloughs there would have cost more than they would have saved, due in part to lost services.

To read the New York Times article in its entirety, please go here: New York Times article

For more on the furlough issue from negotiations, please go here: MAPE Negotiations Update.