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To: Snowshoe who wrote (275575)10/20/2008 10:37:48 AM
From: MrLucky1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 793957
 
My own city of Anchorage has decided to install long-life LED street lights. They're expensive but they'll save substantial electricity and greatly reduce the labor costs for bulb replacement.

If the City of Anchorage is stumping this on saving labor costs, I'm wondering how these pennies are saved. In my town, the light installers are salaried and get paid whether they install bulbs all day or not.

Are the Anchorage light installers on a independent contract? That is the only way I see a potential for saving a few bucks.

If they are unionized, then the argument may be that they can get to "other vital work". At least, that is the story in my neck of the woods.
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