After announcing a tentative contract with the teachers? union late Monday, the Bloomberg administration signaled yesterday that its next major negotiating goal was to achieve savings on health coverage for 300,000 municipal workers. James F. Hanley, the city?s labor commissioner, said he hoped to open talks soon over health coverage with the umbrella group for the city?s unions, the Municipal Labor Committee.
See "New York Looks at Workers? Health Costs", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, November 7, 2006