The salaries for about 2,000 Janitors, Cooks, Teacher Aides, Assistant Bookkeepers and other day-care workers will rise following Mayor de Blasio’s Jan. 6 announcement hiking the city’s minimum hourly wage to $15 by 2018. But those working in the independently-run facilities said that while they perform similar work and match the qualifications as their counterparts in the Department of Education, they are paid significantly less.
During a recent rally at City Hall, about 75 people including City Council Members as well as workers in District Council 1707 and the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators urged the Mayor to fix the parity issue in his administration’s universal-pre-kindergarten expansion.
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