re: #644 ziggyelman

C.A., they have done the same sort of thing here in Atlanta. Closed perhaps the oldest station. It was little, but the folks in that neighborhood were very upset. And this happened months ago. I don’t know if it has been brought back into service again or not. Seems to me the “public servants” could take a 20% pay cut before closing down essential services. Yeah, right….

Boston’s city unions want their members to know that “we’re all in this together.” Only some are more “in” than others.
Faced with the firing of hundreds of city workers to close a $131 million budget gap, all of Boston’s big public-sector unions continue to reject Mayor Menino’s call for a wage freeze. Freezing paychecks where they are would mean more city workers would keep getting them. Without the freeze, the best-paid union members would get the biggest raises, and the lowest-paid workers would get pink slips.
Unions Would Rather Fire Than Freeze