"None of these actions is designed to punish or scapegoat City workers, " he said.
With little public transit service available, the gulf between city workers and suburban jobs only widens.
The overall number of city workers went down 3% during his time in office.
Hundreds of city workers, including teachers, in Oakland, joined the call for a strike.
Bloomberg said the experience of the October superstorm helped city workers mobilize and work together.
In 2010 there will even be a small increase of 9, 000 in City workers.
The taps were removed after Calais city workers left a note asking their owner to take them away.
In San Diego and San Jose, voters overwhelmingly approved cuts to retirement benefits for city workers.
They were only the most obvious casualties of a cull of City workers that threatened to be long and broad.
Nearly half the police force was fired, and one-sixth of all city workers -- 335 in all -- got pink slips.
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Dabba wallahs (delivery men) fill the streets at lunchtime, bringing tiffins (metal food containers) filled with home-cooked meals to city workers.
"The majority preferred to have the flag come down, " he said, and city workers removed it a week after it went up.
His father, Bernard Kilpatrick, was also indicted, along with other city workers.
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The latest effort began after city workers were given access to a previously unavailable portion of the site, near the World Financial Center.
Teachers and other city workers in Oklahoma have lost their collective bargaining rights under a new bill passed by the Oklahoma senate.
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It would also require changing the contracts for city workers: making them stump up bigger health-care contributions and work longer weeks, with less overtime.
About 95 percent of city workers don't pay anything, Bloomberg said.
Despite Bloomberg's assurances the city wouldn't be strained, it seemed insensitive to assign police and city workers to cover a road race while a crisis continued.
One city official just warned that if nothing is done, pension costs for non-uniformed city workers would consume one-third of the city budget within 20 years.
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"Most city workers do have health insurance, but unfortunately a catastrophic illness such as cancer or anything like that, you know, not everything is covered, " he explained.
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The city workers I spoke with all pointed me back to these two government release PDFs: The Street Vending Fact Sheet and General Vending Rules.
City Council Member Jimmy Oddo, whose Staten Island district was hit hard by the storm, said city workers had already been shifting their attention to the marathon route.
Equally, what once seemed like decent treatment for city workers, i.e. generous health care, pensions and pay, particularly for firefighters and police, is now seen as absurd featherbedding.
High unemployment in the area will only increase the facility's attractions, as former City workers seek to recapture some of the excitement they enjoyed in their professional life.
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Voters in San Jose, California's third city, recently approved cuts to pension benefits for city workers by 70% to 30% after an energetic campaign by the Democratic mayor, Chuck Reed.
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And while we rode the route and we smiled and we waved, the city workers were right behind us cleaning up the garbage. (Laughter.) It was a little depressing.
He has long denied any wrongdoing, and defense attorney James Thomas told jurors that his client often was showered with cash gifts from city workers and political supporters during holidays and birthdays.
The clips include him questioning the city workers who have come to turn off his water for non-payment and following around an electrician as he checks for faults in the wiring of his house.
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The mayor will also propose raising of the age of retirement for city workers to 67, require city workers to pay a larger share of their healthcare benefits, and will announce that a significant number of layoffs for union workers are in the cards if Los Angeles is to bring its finances under control.
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The Atlantic City casino workers and hospital staff, on the other hand, had the best-paying insurance in town.
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