From this source, dated July 9, 2012:
Pennsylvania city workers to take mayor to court over across-the-board minimum wage salariesIs the federal government next or getting close to a similar plight?
Employees of a Pennsylvania city, who have all seen their salaries cut to minimum wage as the mayor grapples with budget problems, are hoping a judge restores their paychecks in full.
Scranton Mayor Chris Doherty cut everyone's pay -- including his own -- on Friday, saying the state's sixth-largest city is broke because the City Council blocked his proposed tax increase. Doherty, a Democrat, warned nearly 400 police officers, firefighters and public works employees about his doomsday plan, prompting a Lackawanna County judge to order the city to pay full wages to all employees, citing that it is a violation of their contracts. Hours later, the payday envelopes went out, and, despite the judge's order, they were light....
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In addition to scaling back wages, Doherty's move cut off overtime, worker's compensation and disability.
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...[Some] workers...saw their paystubs go from about $1,500 every two weeks after deductions to a gross pay of about $600....
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2 comments:
I guess the people of Scranton ought to start turning over cars, setting fire to banks, and rioting to topple the government like the people of Greece and Spain. Because Lord knows, if you can't get money from the government, then all hope is lost.
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While I understand the chagrin of someone opening a paycheck and having the same bills, but 1/3 the money ... sooner or later govt workers have to make the connection between vibrant GROWING commercial success, small business startup and success, and the revenue collected as taxes which in the strictest sense must be a parasite on that body of effort.
Scranton should long ago connected the dots to create a crash program to induce business to startup, enter, and grow, like FREEPORT MAINE, which had NOTHING but one corporation, and worked with them to create an entire TOWN of businesses.
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