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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1016776" data-attributes="member: 38206"><p><strong>More payday drama in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as last-minute loan backs paychecks</strong></p><p><strong></strong><strong>City workers in Scranton, Pa., who earlier this summer saw their salaries temporarily slashed to </strong></p><p><strong>minimum wage, will be crossing their fingers on payday this week.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>If an emergency loan to the city doesn't go through, neither will the workers' paychecks.</strong></p><p><strong>"We only know what the public knows, what's in the news," said a Department </strong></p><p><strong>of Public Works employee who asked not to be named.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>City officials, including Mayor Chris Doherty, insist that the city will meet payroll and all other city </strong></p><p><strong>obligations now that New York-based Amalgamated Bank made the city a short-term tax anticipation </strong></p><p><strong>loan of $6.25 million. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>But the city workforce already dealt with payday drama in July, when Doherty unilaterally cut </strong></p><p><strong>everyone's salary -- including his own -- to the state minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Read more: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/29/scranton-takes-out-loan-to-make-payroll/?test=latestnews#ixzz250tlMHBV" target="_blank">More payday drama in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as last-minute loan backs paychecks | Fox News</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="texan, post: 1016776, member: 38206"] [B]More payday drama in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as last-minute loan backs paychecks [/B][B]City workers in Scranton, Pa., who earlier this summer saw their salaries temporarily slashed to minimum wage, will be crossing their fingers on payday this week. [/B] [B]If an emergency loan to the city doesn't go through, neither will the workers' paychecks.[/B] [B]"We only know what the public knows, what's in the news," said a Department of Public Works employee who asked not to be named. City officials, including Mayor Chris Doherty, insist that the city will meet payroll and all other city obligations now that New York-based Amalgamated Bank made the city a short-term tax anticipation loan of $6.25 million. But the city workforce already dealt with payday drama in July, when Doherty unilaterally cut everyone's salary -- including his own -- to the state minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. [/B] Read more: [url=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/29/scranton-takes-out-loan-to-make-payroll/?test=latestnews#ixzz250tlMHBV]More payday drama in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as last-minute loan backs paychecks | Fox News[/url] [/QUOTE]
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