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Iowa State Workers Ponder Unpaid Days Off To Prevent Layoffs

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November 11, 2009

By Jesse Russell

Public sector workers in Iowa will be voting this month on a deal that could save members from lay offs. In exchange the workers would accept five mandatory unpaid days off. Represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees the employees nearly 20,000 state workers would have their jobs preserved until the start of the next fiscal year in July of 2010. Nothing else in the workers contract would change including schedule pay increases. The deal would save Iowa $26.4 million. AFCSME workers would also be protected from management staff facing job cuts from bumping them for their jobs.

(From the Workers Independent News radio report for November 11, 2009. Download the MP3 file.)

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