Union members pack forum on Suffolk layoffs
Photo credit: David Pokress | Legis. Tom Cilmi (R-Bay Shore). (May 25, 2011)
An overflow crowd of Suffolk employees continued Tuesday night to passionately lobby lawmakers to save 315 jobs being eliminated this summer, proposing alternatives that have largely been rejected by County Executive Steve Bellone.
In their largest turnout yet, more than 200 Association of Municipal Employees members packed the legislature's Hauppauge auditorium and hallway for a hearing organized...
