In a memo lauding CSEA workers for approving their labor agreement, State Director of Operations Howard Glaser buries the lead when he says members of the NYSCOPBA and UUP have been “slow to engage” in negotiations for their contracts.

Glaser writes to department heads that the unions representing corrections officers and public university professors that it may prove impossible to avoid layoffs in those bargaining units.

“We will be providing further instruction regarding reductions in affected agencies with these units in the coming days,” Glaser writes.

The Public Employees Federation, a union of white-collar state workers, will vote on its contract by September. The union’s leadership, like CSEA, agreed to givebacks in its contract, including pay freezes and furloughs.

The memo from Glaser today could simply be an effort to spur UUP and NYSCOPBA into action. Correction officers have been particularly concerned with the plan to close state prison facilities, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office announced last month would impact communities across the state.

Glaser Memo

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