http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/scranton-minimum-wage-city-police-firemen-140229063.html direct violation of a court order? no?
The City council needs to go with him. I've only lived here two weeks, but it's pretty clear they all fell out of the same clown car.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/10/156509668/scranton-workers-see-pay-slashed-to-minimum-wage Here's the NPR story the first article relies on. The local head of Leonard's union says a dispute between the mayor and the city council has workers caught in the middle. "You have an all Democratic council and you have a Democratic mayor," says Sam Vitris, president of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge 2305. "It's not Republican versus Democrat. This is Scranton City Council versus the mayor." Scranton has had financial troubles for a couple decades now. A troubling mix of declining population since World War Two and economic hard times has stretched city finances. The mayor and city council have debated since last fall over how to fill a $16.8 million budget gap. Doherty wants to increase taxes. The council wants to find other sources of revenue — such as payments from tax-exempt non-profits like local universities.