Reply #20: Yes, big time...

[smitra]

Look at this document that does a side-by-side comparison of what Cuomo has forced one of the largest unions among state workers to accept by using the threat of massive layoffs - of the order of 10,000: http://www.csealocal1000.org/images/janicem/final_contr... .

You can see here that what he, and his representatives, actually proposed was far worse than what was eventually agreed to. He wanted no raises till October 2015, and only a 1% raise then. He wanted to raise the employee contributions to health insurance premiums by 10% (eventually, a 6% increase was agreed to). Plus he wanted 20 furlough days. All the while, he steadfastly refused to consider continuing the millionaire's tax, has cut K-12 education, and pushed a bill thru the legislature to raise tuition in state colleges by 30% over the next five years.

Many of us here in NYS voted for Cuomo because voting for Paladino was unthinkable.