Mayor says NYC must lay off thousands more!
ALBANY, New York - April 8, 2009 - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told department heads Wednesday to identify thousands of city employees for layoffs by next Monday because the city’s economic outlook has continued to deteriorate and tax revenues remain short of projections, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.
Sources at City Hall said as many as 7,000 more jobs could be eliminated. Bloomberg’s budget plan for next fiscal year, which begins July 1, already included at least 1,300 layoffs; the new round of reductions would bring the likely total to more than 8,300.
Those layoffs would cut even more from a city bureaucracy that lost 9,000 workers in January.
