New York's public employee unions reached agreement to avert layoffs

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Published June 9, 2009 at 3:33 PM EDT

By Chris Ulanowski

Oswego, NY – Governor Paterson and New York's public employee unions have reached an agreement to avoid the layoff of up to nine-thousand state workers because of the state's fiscal problems. The Civil Service Employees Association is one of the unions. C-S-E-A's Stephen Maduaruz explains to WRVO's Chris Ulanowski how the compromise was reached.

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