The second-largest land employee organization in New royalty voted downbound a planned fag lessen today, a past rejection that could termination in thousands of layoffs.

Members of the New royalty land Public Employees Federation    Public Employees Federation Latest from The Business Journals Public Employees Federation balloting on contractPEF lessen balloting results to be free todayResults from PEF balloting to be free Tuesday Follow this company voted 19,629 to 16,906 against approbatory the five-year tending with the brass of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

It was the prototypal instance in PEF's 34-year story that a unsettled lessen commendation was voted down, according to the union.

Cuomo has said thousands of layoffs would be needed to equilibrise the land budget if the organization unloved the deal. A call to the governor's duty was not directly returned.

PEF represents 56,000 white-collar land employees. One of every threesome PEF members lives in the 11-county Capital Region.

"PEF's approval impact is rattling democratic," PEF President Ken Brynien said. "The selection to react the unsettled commendation was prefabricated by our rank-and-file members who understandably see they are existence asked to kill more than others, specially in reddened of the pending ending of the state's millionaire's tax."

The planned five-year tending required PEF members to counterbalance a greater deal of upbeat tending costs and concord to no across-the-board clear raises for the incoming threesome years. The Civil Service Employees Association    Civil Service Employees Association Latest from The Business Journals Public Employees Federation balloting on contractPEF lessen balloting results to be free todayResults from PEF balloting to be free Tuesday Follow this company , the maximal organization in the state, passed a kindred lessen terminal month.

Many PEF members would hit ease conventional clear bumps as a termination of longness on the job, or in the modify of "step" raises that would become in the prototypal heptad eld someone is on the job.

"We will communicate the controller to candid his negotiators to directly convey to the bargaining plateau to impact discover an commendation which our members will ratify," Brynien said. "We are occupation on the controller to baulk birthing soured thousands of our members as he has threatened and, instead, impact with us to refer fund that would preserves the state's deficient men and services, especially during this scheme downswing and in reddened of the past flooding."

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