The mayor of Democrats in Los Angeles wants to separate 1,600 employees as a city that excels
On Monday, the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass proposed that more than 1,600 government workers in an attempt to fill a budget gap worth $ 1 billion amid a floundering economy, while the city receives the costly job of rebuilding a coastal neighborhood directed at a fire in January.
The possibility of cutting hundreds of government jobs comes as the latest unwanted news for Democrats in the first period, which will lead to his re -election next year.
In a letter to the city council, Bass called the municipal workforce “the largest asset in the city”, but he said that the discounts are needed at a time when the city hall is struggling with uncertainty in Washington, higher costs of salaries and benefits of workers, slow economy, and hard work to rebuild the Palaisades Community community.
“We have a very difficult budget for balance,” Pass said. She called her decision to propose jobs reduce “the last resort.”
David Green, head of international service employees, local 721, who represents more than 10,000 workers in the city, said the federation will search for new sources of financing and other alternatives to reduce jobs.
“We will not allow the bureaucrats out of touch … to balance the budget on the appearance of the city’s workers,” Green said in a statement.
Late last month, Bass and the City CouncilHe appealed to SacramentoFor nearly $ 2 billion of disaster recovery aid, as the city faces an expected deficit, the Bass office had been linked by about one billion dollars. It plans to return to Sacramento this week to search for additional government funds that can reduce the suggested workers’ demobilization.
theCoreMore than 6800 destroyed structures and killed at least 12 people.
It is up to the council to agree to the spending plan for the financial year that begins on the first of July.
Bass’s proposed discounts in the workforce are remembered by the difficult financial contact in the recession in 2008, when he ended up in the mayor of Antonio Velarigosa thousands of government jobs to maintain balance, and pushing municipal workers for the first time to push towards pension and health care, and clashed with the Teachers Union, which was once employing it.
During the Korona virus pandemic, the mayor of Eric GarsteiAbout 15,000 workers won the cityShe offered early retirement packages to others, but she avoided workers widely widely.
Despite the financial form of the defeated city, Bass delivered a letter often optimistic to the council, noting that the crime had decreased, including murders, and the city was gradually obtaining homeless membersOutside the streetsAnd to housing. She confessed to what is clear: Although the numbers indicate improvement, the homeless camps remain a familiar scene in the neighborhoods throughout the city, and more money is needed for housing.
“There is much more to go.”
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