2,200 Newark City Jobs On The Line
NEWARK, NJ (WCBS 880) - Roughly 2,200 uniform and non-uniform city workers in Newark have been notified that their jobs are on the line.
LISTEN: WCBS 880's Monica Miller reports
A spokeswoman for Mayor Cory Booker says that pink slips won't be handed out until the state completes a 45-day analysis of individual positions.
However, Newark's police officer union president Derek Hatcher says he expects more than 160 of his men and women will be looking for other work.
"This is something that's going to hurt the city of Newark tremendously and it's going to interfere with the growth and the renaissance of the city that the Mayor is looking for," Hatcher told WCBS 880 reporter Monica Miller.
The layoffs could go into effect as early as this November.
