well they won’t be reducing benefits. The unions and their Lawyahs will see to that.
There are many ways around that.
Bottom line, no contract is enforceable if the terms are impossible. Lawyers may manage to enforce "unreasonable," but impossible is another matter.
Contracts can be allowed to expire, and a new contract based on reality substituted. If the employees don't like it they quit, or be fired. That's my choice. Fire them all, even if the state comes to a halt (a good thing, the working taxpayers are unaffected).
All new public service contracts can be no better than the median salary/benefits package in private industry for identical work. Anyone who would question or challenge that is ignorant of the nature/practice of "public" employment. An uncompromising principle: the employer decides what he's willing to pay. The employee can take it or leave it.
Works for private industry.
No union-free private business has ever survived with 15% of the employees doing essentially nothing, and 50% working at half speed. None. Zero.
Public emplyment should be a stepping stone to real employment, not another form of welfare. And damned expensive welfare at that.