Nothing like pissing off ASFSCME when trying to blame the reformers:
The notice does not say how many employees would be laid off. Stroger’s chief of staff, Lance Tyson, said the notices are the first step and that it will take two to three weeks for the administration to evaluate where the cuts would fall.
Anders Lindall, a union spokesman, called the letter “factually inaccurate,” noting some of the nine commissioners have supported new revenue although they oppose Stroger’s sales-tax increase.“We have never seen a layoff letter like this one that attempts to pin the blame for potential job cuts on specific commissioners,” said Lindall, spokesman for the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees Council 31