Statement: “When you’re laying off 600 people at the county board and not providing services when your charge is to provide services for those who are most in need … I think something is wrong with the system,” Lorena Gonzalez, secretary-treasurer of the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council, said on the KPBS program These Days, advocating term limits for the county supervisors.
Analysis: Gonzalez repeats a common problem we find in the Fact Check Blog. For example, previously, the city cut around 200 positions from its budget. But a significantly fewer number of employees were actually laid off. Several officials missed that important distinction, so we corrected them.
Fact Check: Labor Leader Wrong on Layoffs
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