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State workers in Iowa weighing an opportunity to save jobs versus losing pay. Jesse Russell reports:

Public sector workers in Iowa will be voting this month on a deal that could save members from lay offs. In exchange the workers would accept five mandatory unpaid days off. Represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees the employees nearly 20,000 state workers would have their jobs preserved until the start of the next fiscal year in July of 2010. Nothing else in the workers contract would change including schedule pay increases. The deal would save Iowa $26.4 million. AFCSME workers would also be protected from management staff facing job cuts from bumping them for their jobs.