Cash-strapped Hudson Valley counties at stalemate with employees union
Photo credit: John Dyer | Karen Pecora, president of the CSEA union, speaks before lawmakers and residents at a hearing on Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's proposed budget in Mamaroneck Village Hall. (Nov. 20, 2012)
Republican county executives in the Hudson Valley are getting nowhere with the Civil Service Employees Association, or CSEA, as they struggle to keep their budgets balanced.
In Westchester County, where the CSEA represents about 3,200 workers, the union is turning to "fact finding" by the state agency that monitors negotiations with public employees, indicating that talks with the county have...
