/* Written 5:03 PM Apr 13, 1998 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] in web:p.news */
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The second NY Times article on Workfare ("Many Participants in Workfare Take
the Place of City Workers," 4/13/98) details how the Giuliani administration
is reducing the City's work force and replacing it with thousands of Workfare
participants -- with compensation in the form of welfare several times less
than standard (if not all that generous) city wages/benefits. No wonder
Giuliani has ordered his agencies to say N*O*T*H*I*N*G to the press.
Replacing City workers with WEPers explicitly violates state laws authorizing
this program. Needless to say many WEPers are former workers laid off from
jobs and not re-hired for reasons of age and other 'new era' bars to
employment in the face of NYC's 9+% unemployment rate.
Stanley Hill (head of the District 37 representing 120,000 municipal workers
and Giuliani supporter) where are you? And go Judge Jane Solomon who ordered
the City to provide basics for WEPers -- proper work clothes, boots, toilet
facilities, etc.
Ed Kent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
