With millions in profits, power companies

shouldn’t keep workers trapped in poverty.

W e pay billions of dollars a year to state-regulated public utilities companies, like National Grid and
Con Edison, that allow contracted cleaners at their sites to make poverty-like wages that leave
them and their families to rely on publicly-funded programs their food, health care and housing.

To provide these workers with enough to make ends meet and keep them off costly public assistance
that strains our government budgets, Assembly Members should pass legislation to close the
“public utility loophole.”

Danny Mercedes, New York City Ida McGee, Rochester

Earns only $8.50/hr as a contracted cleaner at ConEd Earns $7.75/hr with no meaningful health care as a
and relies on food stamps to feed his daughters. contracted cleaner at Rochester Gas & Electric.

Tell Your Assembly Member to

close the “public utility loophole.”