Almost as soon as the scope of the budget problem became clear, the governor called on teachers, who received scheduled raises during the recession, to accept a one-year freeze.
Last year, police officers lost an arbitration battle with the city and received a new contract that granted them no raises during the first two years of a five-year pact.
More patients were able to perform straight leg raises during the first therapy session in both the saline placebo catheter group (70%) and bupivacaine group (72%) compared with the control group (50%).
During his speech, he also talked about his Mormon faith, a subject he rarely raises during the campaign, saying, "My friends cared more about what sports teams we followed than what church we went to".
Plenty of employees are finding themselves in this predicament, because many recession-wary companies that stopped handing out raises during the economic downturn are still hesitant to open their wallets today.
Disney also plans to stop giving out any retirement plans to newly hired employees in favor of 410(k) plans, and its current proposal delineates a 5½-year contract, with no raises during the last two years.
