Sandy utility crews complain of payroll delay
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National Grid crewmen from Fredonia, N.Y., repair power lines on Port Washington Blvd. that were brought down from the effects of Superstorm Sandy on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in Port Washington, N.Y. / AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek MINEOLA, N.Y. Mike Valaskatgis slept in his National Grid truck for two nights, and then on a cot two more nights before getting a bed in a hotel room during a 10-day visit to New York last month to help in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. The Gloucester, Mass. , overhead lineman said he logged 18-hour days working in various Long Island neighborhoods to restore power. He opened his latest paycheck this week, and was disgusted to see that an estimated $7,000 in overtime has yet to be paid. "It was frustrating up until today. Now I'm angry," he told The Associated Press Thursday in a telephone interview.
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| -0.647223 | "We're very frustrated," said Dan Hurley, ... |
| -0.530463 | "We're very frustrated," said Dan Hurley, president of Braintree, Mass.-based Local 369 of the Utility Workers Union of America. "People are not getting paid." |
| 0 | "We had hundreds of workers who went down there," Hurley said ... |
| 0.11213 | "We had hundreds of workers who went down there," Hurley said of Massachusetts workers who went to New York for several weeks of repair work. "They answered the call, and they would do it again." |
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Mike Valaskatgis
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Patrick Stella
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