Posted on 03/09/2009 4:39:13 PM PDT by mainestategop
LEWISTON, Maine — As the recession deepens and more people lose their jobs, some workers in Maine have voluntarily given up part of their pay to keep their colleagues from being laid off. Tom Light, a sixth-grade teacher in West Paris, is among the more than 60 percent of the employees of School Administrative District 17 who agreed to sacrifice some income to make up for a budget shortfall and save seven jobs.
About 380 of the system’s 600 employees offered to either take time off without pay, or work but give some money back. Each person decided on an amount, ranging from $2 to $800.
Light agreed to give back a day’s pay, or approximately $275.
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$275 saved 7 jobs?
I guess we just need to take $275 from every single American...
wait we took tens of thousands per person and its done squat
Wonder what dropping the minimum wage to 2006 levels could do?
Seeing as how none of the jobs in question pay minwage - not much.
Maine is a lost cause.
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