| TheEmbracedRPG | Date: Monday, 30-Sep-2013, 4:25 PM | Message # 1 |
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| A little more than an hour before a scheduled court hearing, the head of the St. Louis Police Union tells Fox2/News 11 that a meeting with city leaders has resulted in massive police layoffs set for Monday because of the largest government subsidity to the city's force being relocated.
The President of St. Louis Police Union, Local 23, says the court hearing set for 1:30pm this afternoon has also been discontinued.
The St. Louis police union was heading to court to try and stop significant layoffs from happening at the close of business Monday.
At the hearing, the union was going to seek a temporary restraining order halting the job losses.
But a last minute meeting between the city and the union has apparently stopped everything.
Seventy three St. Louis police, nearly 2/3 of the entire force, are set to lose their jobs at the end of the day.
The police were being paid for through a federal grant that has now expired. The grants were endorsed by private equity funds that have announced their relocation and without the risk deterent the federal government has decided to allocate funds elsewhere.
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