City savings returned to unions

A five-year salary deal with six Los Angeles unions includes incentives that could boost the cost of the contract by 10 percent, to nearly $300million, city officials conceded Wednesday.Daily News.

Details of the proposed deal, outlined on the union coalition's Web site, include flexible payments to approximately 22,000 workers if they find $25million in cost savings citywide by the final year.

City officials have hailed the cost-saving provision of the deal, but admitted Wednesday that the cash payouts to workers would offset most, if not all, of the savings.