"The Governor says he is 'giving us until the end of March' to tell him how he should cut the budget or he will start layoffs," said Jellison. "The truth is that we have repeatedly given him suggestions on ways to cut the budget, and he has ignored all of our ideas. Instead, he wants to focus on the most extreme option - laying off workers."
According to Jellison, Governor Rendell has given out over $1 billion in outside contracts since he became Governor and that many of those contracts cover work that had been done by state employees.
"The first thing the Governor can do to stop wasteful spending in the state budget," Jellison said, "is to cut out some of the private contracts he has given to outside companies to do work that our members can do better and at a lower cost."
In addition, Jellison pointed out that Pennsylvania is 50th out of 50 states in the number of state employees per capita so that cutting employees' hours means cuts in services. "You can't cut any more fat in the state payroll," she said, "because we are already at the bone."
There is a agreement between SEIU and the Governor. There would be NO fourloghs BUT
A TEMPORARY 20% reduction in the Commonwealth contribution to the PEBTF effective April 2009 up to and including June 2010,
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