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in just hours hundreds of scranton workers will open paychecks reflecting
minimum wage despite a county judges shooting down that panda play area
plan to pay our city workers seven twenty five an hour the mayor said that
there is just no other way mer christo ready said the city just doesn't have
the cash to me is traditional payroll
our job although live in scranton with the latest on the city's financial
crisis joe
jennifer despite any solutions to this problem that they were increases over
here calcareous over here
and in the center is the city worker in scranton and despite a judge saying that
you do have to pay these workers
their traditional pay rates still the mayor says he does not have the cash on
hand
a day-long battle seems to have produced feel results for script and city workers
there was an apology from the city council president sort of we've come
down
more than a year
he acted
in the field we go
and unilateral manner
not so fast that merrily arthur st lanes cancel
for coming up short on cash but the reality is because council's underfunded
their budget
we don't have any money
we've enough money to pay minimum wage and if more money to build a happy make
those payments a court hearing thursday afternoon struck down the mayor's plan
stale all city workers minimum wage we ought to pay any of these guys go out
and risk their lives every single day of the week but even with that judge's
order
we're told citibank account search around
i don't have a printing press
and i can't create money i don't have reaction from people at city councils
meeting
exciter w_b_ ari at six o'clock
he was also quoted as saying
i don't have a printing press
this is all kelso's fault it's their budget they failed the people
fall here we go all the blame game again
with a lot of work in the near there was even some anger naal
no mister robb
somebody get a student at their capability for which goes
with the blame game seeming to be tied critics of both counsel and the mayor
said the city's workforce is caught in the middle we represent the people the
city isn't whether counsel likes the mayor doesn't like the man
it's about the services that people's city and that's what i wanted to provide
perhaps the only silver lining of the night
we doing ten
to have the situation straightened out influenced by
and we are still bob actively involved
and working on
securing
finds the thinking
responsible
at the root of all of this is the council and the mayor's ability to find
the city's budget and there are a lot of theories on how to get there
notwithstanding that argument tomorrow there is a court hearing onto a special
injunction that was granted today there will be testimony tomorrow about this
minimum wage issue that hearing is set for eleven a n and we are told that by
an attorney from earlier today on the minimum wage issue he represents the
union's that there could be some kid contempt proceedings if workers work to
move forward and receiving their paychecks at seven dollars and twenty
five cents an hour that's the very latest flight tonight is going to joe
golden by fifty-six news first attack candice are ito thank you