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CLEVELAND — Cleveland janitorial worker John Gilner is proud of the work he does at the massive Earnst and Young building in downtown Cleveland but said his pay of $13.50 an hour makes it tough to get by week-to-week.
“It’s hard to keep workers because we don’t get paid enough, we usually get assigned two floors a person, but sometimes we get assigned three because we don’t have enough workers," Gilner said. “It's not only janitors but security, everyone in that work area is just as important as those people in those buildings, or the people that we have clean for and cook for."
Mayor Bibb's"TIF Plan" could divert up to $7.5 billion in tax dollars over the next 40 years to help fund major development projects in downtown Cleveland, along Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga River. Sims said the forum will bring together Clevelanders from all walks of life to discuss the city's most pressing issues and determine how to combine collective power to win for working families across the region.
“Low wage workers should be taken care of throughout all these different processes," Griffin said."But let me honest with you, we have five buildings that are in receivership, I’m hoping that we get a very decent owners in here, you have a tremendous amount of space downtown that’s vacant."
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