{"id":1390,"date":"2020-11-10T19:21:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T00:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/2020\/11\/10\/nyc-union-update-dc37-comes-to-agreement-with-the-city-to-avoid-layoffs-and-save-the-city-164mil\/"},"modified":"2020-11-10T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T00:30:23","slug":"nyc-union-update-dc37-comes-to-agreement-with-the-city-to-avoid-layoffs-and-save-the-city-164mil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/nyc-union-update-dc37-comes-to-agreement-with-the-city-to-avoid-layoffs-and-save-the-city-164mil\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Union Update: DC37 Comes To Agreement With the City To Avoid Layoffs and Save the City $164Mil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>photo from AFSCME website<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was recently announced that the City has reached an agreement with District Council 37 that will result in $164 million in savings in fiscal year 2021. This agreement follows an agreement with the United Federation of Teachers that will save approximately $450 million in fiscal year 2021 and an agreement with the Uniformed Fire Officers Association that will save approximately $19 million in fiscal year 2021. The Adopted Budget <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/487-20\/in-face-an-economic-crisis-mayor-de-blasio-budget-prioritizes-safety-police\">announced<\/a>\u00a0in June included $1 billion in labor savings for FY21. The City still needs a minimum of $5 billion in federal or state relief in order to avoid drastic action such as layoffs for FY22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur public servants have gone above and beyond in this crisis and are continuing to make sacrifices to help us recover,\u201d said\u00a0<b>Mayor Bill de Blasio<\/b>. \u201cI thank Henry Garrido and our partners in labor for coming to the table to help avoid devastating layoffs, but we need our state and federal partners to also step up and provide our city with aid to ensure we can come back stronger than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>The agreement includes:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Change of payments to union funds:\u00a0<\/b>From October 2020 through April 2021, there will be no payments made for employees and retirees to certain DC 37 union funds. Payments will instead be made in two payments in fiscal year 2022.<\/p>\n<p><b>Commitment on layoffs:\u00a0<\/b>No layoffs of DC 37 members through June 30, 2021. If the City receives State and Federal assistance of $5 billion or more, the no-layoff pledge is extended to June 30, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/newsletter\/\">Subscribe to NYCPolitics.com<\/a><\/strong> for updates on Unions, Elected Official Interviews, Candidate News, City Contracts, Housing and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo from AFSCME website It was recently announced that the City has reached an agreement with District Council 37 that will result in $164 million in savings in fiscal year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5887,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mayor","category-union-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - 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