{"article":{"id":244913,"heading":"Costa Mesa Employee Commits Suicide at City Hall","author":"repost","created":"2011-03-20 05:26:41","modified":"2011-03-20 20:47:07","last_modified":"Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:47:07","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Nonprofit news site Voice of OC reports that a 29 year old electrician Huy Pham, committed suicide after being laid off from the City of Costa Mesa. <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiceofoc.org\/countywide\/county_government\/article_bb2d33ba-5119-11e0-b488-001cc4c03286.html\">http:\/\/www.voiceofoc.org\/countywide\/county_government\/article_bb2d33ba-5119-11e0-b488-001cc4c03286.html<\/a> <br><br> Pham was one of over 200 city workers laid off as part of a massive outsourcing effort by the City.  The goal was to fire employees and hire contractors to do the same jobs. <br><br> The point - perhaps the Costa Mesa Republican majority on the City Council wanted to make a little ruckus to support Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who spearheaded the effort to strip state workers of their union's right to bargain collectively. <br><br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"OC Voice reports that a just-laid-off worker has commited suicde.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2011\/03\/244913.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}