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  •   Victory or Override Party!

    Tuesday, February 5th, Pittsburgh City Council unanimously passed the Prevailing Wage Bill.  This bill ensures that building service workers, hotel workers and grocery store workers in city-subsidized development projects will earn a decent wage, comparable to what similar jobs pay in the private market in Pittsburgh.
     

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  •   Council approves prevailing wage legislation
    Pittsburgh City Council gave final, unanimous approval Tuesday to legislation that would ensure that hotel, grocery, janitorial and cafeteria workers at future city-subsidized development sites earn prevailing wages matching those their typical peers get citywide.

    "We worked really hard to get to a bill that everyone could support," said Gabe Morgan, Western Pennsylvania director of Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ.
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  •   Prevailing wage bill unanimously approved
    Hotel, cafeteria and building maintenance workers at future city-subsidized developments are in line for a pay raise within the next two months following city council's unanimous approval Tuesday of a prevailing wage bill.

    The measure would apply to employers at future developments of 100,000 square feet or larger and grocery stores 25,000 square feet or larger that receive $100,000 or more in city subsidies or that contract with the city.
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  •   Prevailing Wage Passes
    “First they ignore you,
    then they laugh at you,
    then they fight you,
    then you win.”
    ~Mahatma Gandhi

    DOWNTOWN--On Tuesday, City Council approved for the second time the Prevailing Wage Bill.

    The bill, which was approved unanimously, will require city-subsidized projects to pay prevailing wage, that being wage equal to what is being paid by non-subsidized businesses.
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  •   Pittsburgh City Council OKs prevailing wage bill
    Hotel, cafeteria and building maintenance workers workers at future city-subsidized developments are in line for a pay raise within the next two months following city council's unanimous approval today of a prevailing wage bill.
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