Quote Originally Posted by Wesley Mouch View Post
No. Just looks like a couple of things you do to attempt to get control of Detroit's finances. The Union knew about Snyder's Consent Agreement. No switcheroo.
Not so sure about that. The union had reached a tentative agreement with the City earlier this year. They were just waiting for the City to iron out the details that would allow their members ot vote on the deal. Once everything was worked out and the agreement was ready for City Council's approval. Snyder, before the very same review team that he appointed [[right after the tentative agreements had been reached, I might add) had even finished gathering information to look at before making their recommendations, jumps in with a consent agreement that he presents, not to the mayor who has to then present it to City Council, but City Council themsleves.

Why circumvent the process that way? It appears to me that he's more interested in denying the Union's contracts than the City's finances at this point. Otherwise he would allow the City to save whatever money it could as quickly as possible.