By Matt GalnorStory updated at 8:25 AM on Friday, Mar. 12, 2010
Mayor John Peyton’s plan to shore up Jacksonville city finances is based heavily on getting some help from the unions.
But if he doesn’t get the help, he has other options — as he showed Thursday with the city’s largest union.
The chances of reaching agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police dimmed significantly when the city declared an impasse with the 2,400-member union of police and corrections officers.
“We came to the conclusion we were not moving forward,” Peyton said.
Peyton wants salary cuts, employees to pick up more of their health insurance costs and a less attractive overtime policy to address a “structural problem” of rising employee costs.
