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I've seen similar dilemmas in other municipalities. There is no good solution to any of it. Camden, NJ imposed massive lay-offs of police and firefighters. Other cities closed schools and laid off teachers. And, in my judgment, there's lots of blame to go around. It's a union's job to get the best deal they can for their membership but there has to be a modicum of reason and rationality to their proposals. It's a municipality's responsibility to negotiate in good faith and good faith includes fiscal restraint and an honest appraisal of what is feasible.
What the mayor did was an act of desperation and I don't think that anyone who isn't directly involved has a real sense of the details of how this all came to be.
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Butch
Extremist Moderate
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