{"id":133,"date":"2007-11-30T14:11:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T20:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/30\/2008-budget-battle-brews\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T14:11:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T20:11:42","slug":"2008-budget-battle-brews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/30\/2008-budget-battle-brews\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Budget Battle Brews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the information of our members, we are in another budget cycle, the results of which are uncertain right now.\u00a0 There have been hearings on the 2008 budget for weeks, and there are more hearings today (Friday, 11\/30\/07) that could have an affect on our office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the budget battle in general and for today&#8217;s hearings in particular, members of the union executive board have met in person with key county commissioners to make a pitch for our office.\u00a0 In addition, AFSCME has been working the budget cycle as hard as ever.\u00a0 While the outcome is still not yet clear, and we don&#8217;t know where the votes will fall for revenue generation or budget cuts, we continue to fight for our members in particular and our office in general.<\/p>\n<p>All members are encouraged to follow the budget battle in the media and check our website for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the information of our members, we are in another budget cycle, the results of which are uncertain right now.\u00a0 There have been hearings on the 2008 budget for weeks, and there are more hearings today (Friday, 11\/30\/07) that could have an affect on our office.\u00a0 In preparation for the budget battle in general and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}