DETROIT (AP) — Like clock hands spinning backward, Sandy Gajewski's pay is moving in the wrong direction, and the fire-engine painter doesn't know where her pay will bottom out under a proposed consent agreement between the city and state.

The 53-year-old Gajewski and many other Detroit municipal union workers say they've been backed into a corner by the consent deal that would nullify recently ratified pay, benefits and pension concessions — and it could change the landscape of future collective bargaining deals in the city.

"I'm in skilled trades and I make less than $20 an hour. With the concessions, I'd make $2 less," Gajewski told The Associated Press on Friday. "That's going to take me back to the Year 2000 wages."