Even as anger continued to ripple through the ranks of Emergency Medical Service workers and their unions over Mayor de Blasio’s remark last month that they were paid significantly less than firefighters because “the work is different,” Labor Commissioner Robert W. Linn said Feb. 6 that the gulf between the two jobs was justified based on what private-sector EMS workers are paid.
“The Mayor got it right,” Mr. Linn said during an interview in the office that he will vacate Feb. 15, with his successor, Renee Campion, alongside him. “The work is different.”
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