This I love, courtesy of the Syracuse Post-Standard:
Ten weeks after a Syracuse City Court judge found that Murbro Parking was required to pay a "living wage" to workers who staffed city-owned garages, the employees are tired of waiting for answers.
In November, they started earning the $13.11 per hour required by the living wage law enacted in 2005 to keep workers under city contracts out of poverty.
But a week later, the employees experienced a less welcome change -- their 40-hour workweek was cut back to 35 hours. Managers' hours were cut, too. One manager said the result was a reduced paycheck, after overtime was eliminated and regular hours were cut below 38.
"How is that helping us get out of poverty?" one garage employee wondered. "It's giving us one thing and taking something else away. Why are they hurting us?"
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brett of OR 12:43PM December 22, 2008
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