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Unions, Service Providers React to Gov's Budget Cuts
People who need state services, and people who provide them, are predictably unhappy about what they heard from Gov. Pat Quinn and his top staff Friday.

While Quinn and his chief of staff, Jerry Stermer, said they'd like to negotiate a pay freeze with union workers, the leading state workers' union points out it hasn't heard from the administration since June. AFSCME Council 31 spokesman Anders Lindall says that was over a "vague" proposal for four furlough days. Now the governor wants 12.

Lindall says Quinn and the General Assembly share responsibility for the state's financial problems and says lawmakers should return to the Capitol to raise money.

Don Moss, a Springfield advocate who has been working on behalf of about 175 agencies which help the disabled, says Quinn probably is doing the best he can. "With the overlay of the recession upon us, that exaggerates these demands," says Moss of the increasingly complicated nature of disability services.

Quinn says he wants to lay off 2,600 workers as part of more than $1 billion in new budget cuts.

(Illinois Radio Network)
08 01 09 by Newsroom
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