Detroit Mayor Dave Bing: Only union givebacks can avert an emergency manager. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing speaks during a Free Press interview in a conference room in the Mayor's Office in the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in Detroit on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. The city of Detroit is on the verge of running out of money by February because of runaway pension and health care costs, prompting Mayor Dave Bing today to warn that the state may soon have no choice but to appoint an emergency manager to take over city finances and union contracts. The only way to avoid a state takeover, Bing said in an exclusive interview with the Free Press, is for union employees to accept deep cuts in pension and health care benefits by the summer and agree to modify workforce rules that make it difficult for employees to be laid off or shifted to other positions.
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