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Judge: Scranton, must pay employees full wages
Yahoo News ^ | Fri, Jul 6, 2012

Posted on 07/09/2012 3:49:08 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A judge has ordered the city of Scranton to pay employees full wages, but the mayor says the cash-strapped government can't afford it.

Lackawanna County Judge Michael Barrasse on Friday granted an injunction to unions challenging Mayor Chris Doherty's decision to impose minimum wages to nearly 400 employees. The Times-Tribune of Scranton reports paychecks containing the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour had already been issued.

Doherty says he can't print money and that City Council has to fulfill the obligations of their budget. City Administrator Ryan McGowan says the city would have only $83,000 available after making a minimum-wage payroll of $311,000.

Union attorney Thomas Jennings says he will again file a motion seeking to hold the mayor in contempt of court if paychecks do not contain full wages.

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To: junta
I disagree. The unions there just negotiated themselves a good deal and now it is time to pay up. They made a deal, live up to it or get out of office. Maybe it is time some politicians take an axe and cut their pay before anyone. These so called public servants negotiated the deal with the union so it is they whom are also quite responsible for the outcome. It could be time that political figures are forced to return their pensions and retirements and also the free health care they get too to fulfill the contracts they signed.
21 posted on 07/09/2012 4:25:27 PM PDT by Plumberman27
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To: Grams A
the unions don't want volunteer fire depts....ever notice that its the union firemen who are always behind new 911 gadgetry....or who push the county emt system...they know that if they keep making it harder for volunteer fire depts, then they'll get those jobs....after all....they're the "professionals"....

I read somewhere once that only 6% of fire dept responses were actually for fires....

22 posted on 07/09/2012 4:31:08 PM PDT by cherry (Catholics for Romney)
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To: djf

what the real problem is I suspect, is that the pension costs and costs for health care are eating up whatever money is available to actually pay the present WORKERS....which is the case in every govt entity....the retired are eating up every single penny while they sit on their arses...


23 posted on 07/09/2012 4:33:29 PM PDT by cherry (Catholics for Romney)
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To: DeaconBenjamin
Hey Joe! Mr. Bite Me. This is a BFD don't ya think?

Say it ain't so, Joe. Maybe you can't go home again.

5.56mm

24 posted on 07/09/2012 4:37:05 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Another brokerage just did a Corzine on its clients and yet our political class navel gazes at these crooks, IMO we are volcano waiting to erupt.


25 posted on 07/09/2012 4:42:50 PM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin
"Squeeze harder! There must be blood in there somewhere!"


26 posted on 07/09/2012 4:56:59 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Declare bankruptcy, dissolve the city’s incorporation, and then no one can be paid.


27 posted on 07/09/2012 4:59:05 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: DeaconBenjamin
Oooo, Oooo, call on me, I know the answer!

Raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

See, it is simple.

28 posted on 07/09/2012 5:01:54 PM PDT by razorback-bert (I'm in shape. Round is a shape isn't it?)
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To: DeaconBenjamin
Let the judge order the sheriff to sell the city to the highest bidder!! Hmmmmmmm.
29 posted on 07/09/2012 5:05:18 PM PDT by DaBearOne (she is always with us)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Fine. Declare bankruptcy. Hey, look, no more wages for anyone!


30 posted on 07/09/2012 5:20:54 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin
Prominent on the city website ( http://www.scrantonpa.gov )
is a large, pretty banner:

Pennsylvania's Progressive City

LOL!
No, that rates a full ROTFLMAO!

With a motto like that, how could they possibly lose?

31 posted on 07/09/2012 6:17:38 PM PDT by sarasmom ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xZsFe6dM3EY)
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To: Terry Mross
“I did what the judge ordered me to do.”

I read an article recently at F.R., a Judge ordered a battered woman to carry concealed and also ordered her to carry the order with her to show to any LEO who might question her. He has been ordering some women to do this and even paid for the gun and ammo out of his own pocket in some cases, when the woman couldn't afford it.

My kinda judge.

32 posted on 07/09/2012 6:29:09 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: djf

I’d call a meeting of the unions and its workers, hand them $83,000 and say, “Ok, here’s all ya get, you split it up among yourselves!!” Let em kill themselves.


33 posted on 07/09/2012 8:05:44 PM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: djf
When they say "minimum wage" they mean union minimum, don't they?
34 posted on 07/09/2012 8:11:09 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: Terry Mross

Plus also I would LOVE to see Lackawanna County Judge Michael Barrasse’s paycheck garnished and withheld, to help contribute to city of Scranton’s budget shortfall. Can you imagine the judge’s jaw dropping when all of a sudden HIS paycheck is either withheld or he gets only minimum wage as well? Ohhhh I would LOVE it, if somehow that could happen.


35 posted on 07/09/2012 8:17:42 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: rcrngroup

That may be why the judge ordered the mayor to pay up. He doesn’t want to see a precedent set.


36 posted on 07/09/2012 8:42:22 PM PDT by Terry Mross ( To all my kin: Do not attempt to contact me as long as you love obama.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Lay ‘em off.


37 posted on 07/09/2012 11:14:12 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

So, what is the next thing for the Mayor and the City Council? They can’t pay these guys if there is no money. They can’t declare bankruptcy because of the Legislature blocking that.

Part of me says that’s it’s Popcorn time! Part of me says put a barb-wire fence around the place. It’s finished and we need to keep the infection from spreading further.


38 posted on 07/10/2012 5:33:46 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: sirchtruth
The good people at Dem You! have a number of immediate solutions So it seems there is really no crisis
39 posted on 07/10/2012 11:00:33 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Literals will believe anything.)
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