Word: payless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successfully to collect three years of back uniform allowances, only to be told that the award left no money in the till to pay their salaries. A bill making its way through the state legislature will erase the deficit in the current budget and finally put an end to payless paydays for city employees, at least for the time being...
Last December, school officials tried to save money by placing all university employees on a two-and-one-half-day payless furlough. Weeks later, it became apparent that more drastic action was needed. On February 6, the board of trustees, staring at a calculated $30-million deficit, voted to declare Michigan State University in a "state of financial crisis...
Some of the greatest concern is arising in the major cities, which will be hurt by a proposed cancellation of revenue-sharing funds from Washington. Chicago stands to lose $55 million for its school system, which is already so strapped that teachers suffered four payless paydays last winter. Cleveland may have to buy fewer buses and rapid-transit cars; Miami fears its parks will deteriorate without federally paid help; St. Louis may be forced to stop serving free meals to the elderly poor...
...teachers took their action only after enduring four delayed paydays, including a payless Christmas recess. Joan Morgan, 35, a first-grade teacher, put it succinctly: "I'm not going back until they pay me all my money." Early in the week that prospect seemed dim. On a local television show, the mayor, the president of the school board, the city's top financial adviser, the head of the teachers' union and a key city councilman-all of whom must cooperate to lead the school system out of financial chaos-engaged in a shouting match punctuated with name...