The prevailing wage is an amount set by the comptroller's office that seeks to provide pay parity between municipal workers and private contractors for doing the same job. (dnainfo.com)
Most state and local municipal workers younger than 65 are limited to $ 30,000 a year if they return to the public payroll. (newsday.com)
Amid the current economic uncertainty, myths are circulating about the pension programs and health insurance for municipal workers Municipal Labor Coalition Chairperson and Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association President Harry Nespoli and MLC Co-Chair and UFT President Randi Weingarten wrote in the Daily News on March 28, «These myths not only misrepresent the problems, they stand in the way of finding realistic solutions.» (uft.org)