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// ]]>On an 8-3 vote that signaled growing impatience with labor battles in the face of a fiscal crisis, the San Jose City Council on Tuesday imposed 10 percent pay and benefit cuts on four unions representing more than half the city’s workforce.

The unions had resisted across-the-board concession requests that six other unions had accepted to reduce layoffs as city officials try to close a $115 million budget deficit.

Labor leaders characterized the council vote as a “heavy-handed” power grab. And council members said they were making plans in case workers strike.

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