De Blasio: Threat of 22,000 layoffs is 'painfully real'

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NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city is moving forward with “painfully real” plans to lay off 22,000 public workers on Oct. 1 unless another source of cash comes through.

De Blasio confirmed the layoff plans are progressing after POLITICO first reported Tuesday that agencies have been ordered to come up with a list of employees being considered for job cuts by the end of next week.

“The overwhelming cost of local government is personnel. Where we put our money is into the people who provide services to New Yorkers, whether they’re first responders, health care workers, sanitation workers, educators, you name it,” de Blasio told reporters Wednesday.

“If you’re going to keep cutting and keep cutting, it has to at some point reach personnel. It’s just pure logic of budgets, and it’s very sad logic. I don’t like it one bit, and I want to avert this at all costs. So that 22,000 number is painfully real," he said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/de-blasio-threat-of-22000-layoffs-is-painfully-real/ar-BB17ToUx?li=BBnb7Kz

[Initech]

1. COVID has just taken a dump on our whole society.

And like most big dumps, it stinks to no end. Fuck you COVID.

[Squinch]

2. They started today excessing people from schools.

[Renew Deal]

3. Are any of them teachers?

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100213683662

[Squinch]

4. Yes. But it has nothing to do with them not going back, and they aren't fired.

It's that schools are not able to keep all their staff because there just isn't enough money. There are actually more jobs for teachers, but many school budgets don't support the need.

These teachers are excessed. That means they go into a pool and are offered jobs in the NYC Dept. of Ed. where they are needed.

[Klaralven]

5. Is the student population up or down?

Some families may be in the exodus from NY City to the suburbs and upstate?

Some families who sent their children to private schools my not have the money and be returning to public schools?