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Islip extending laid-off workers' benefits through June

The Islip Town workers union, which failed to obtain a restraining order in State Supreme Court Monday to stop the scheduled layoffs of 32 union members, reached a settlement with town officials to extend those workers' health benefits through June 30, town and union officials said.

The jobs of 39 workers, seven of them nonunion, will be terminated on Friday, Islip officials said.

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