From Detroit News (DetNews.com) - 8/29/2009: Another deadline passed Friday in Mayor Dave Bing's pay-cut showdown with unions, prompting him to lay off 205 workers and promise another 1,000 will be out of work next month without a deal. But Bing also delayed by at least a month a proposal to lay off 113 Department of Transportation drivers and end bus service after 6 p.m. on Saturdays and on Sundays. He also extended his deadline to unions to Sept. 26 to accept cuts to avoid mass layoffs, for which notices already have been mailed. Bing, who made no public appearances Friday, released a statement expressing disappointment that unions refused to accept a 10 percent pay cut and other benefit reductions. He said the city continues to "stare a fiscal crisis in the face."
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