Syracuse, N.Y. — The Syracuse Common Council is jumping into stalled contract talks with the city’s largest public works union to advocate for substantial wage increases, pointing to low pay as one of the key factors behind a severe shortage of snow plow drivers and laborers.
Councilors delivered that message Wednesday morning in a Human Resources Committee meeting with the city’s HR director and Deputy Mayor Corey Driscoll Dunham.
“We want them to get a pay that they can live off of and that they can go home and feed their families and feel good about coming to work every day,” said Councilor Rasheada Caldwell, the committee’s chair…