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A version of this article appears in print on May 24, 2010, on Page A20 of the New York edition with the headline: Wage Proposal for Workers at Subsidized Projects May Prompt a Fight at City Hall.
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The latest U.S. proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules would require the $ 16 wage on work comprising 40 percent of the value of light - duty passenger vehicles and 45 percent for pickup trucks.
A summary of the proposal, seen by Reuters and circulating among auto industry officials based on descriptions from Canadian and Mexican trade negotiators, would require the $ 16 wage on work comprising 40 percent of the value of light - duty passenger vehicles and 45 percent for pickup trucks.
And while New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo said the wage bump would create momentum for wage increases in other states, New York franchise owners expressed unhappiness about the proposal, saying they are being unfairly singled out.
Two organizations, Canadian Union of Public Sector Employees (CUPE) and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) have publicly released their proposals on how the minimum wage should be increased in Ontario, with the CCPA proposal in particular showing some promise.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives advocates using this average hourly wage benchmark in their proposal in a report Making Every Job a Good Job.
«Even if the current minimum wage increase proposals don't affect your company, it sets a bad precedent,» Merrill Matthews a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas wrote in a recent article for NCMM.
Although the federal minimum wage has not risen since 2007 — and not for a full decade prior — the President's proposal, which also indexes the wage to inflation, riled a lot of small business advocates.
To aid the lowest earners, the proposal included provisions to make the benefit formula more progressive and to create a minimum benefit for low - wage workers and the long - term disabled.
Opportunistic union proposals are also associated with better wage agreements for the union.
A Democratic proposal to raise the minimum wage to $ 10.10 from $ 7.25 continues to make controversy in Washington as Democrats and Republicans fight over whether the policy would be good for the economy.
The proposal called for Loblaw to review the feasibility, cost and benefits of implementing a living wage policy for its employees, suppliers and contractors.
Cuomo also noted that his wage proposal comes from the political middle, a comfortable spot for him.
Cuomo's minimum wage proposal would create a two - tier system for the minimum wage: $ 11.50 for New York City, $ 10.50 for the rest of the state.
A Cuomo spokeswoman yesterday was harsher in the assessment of de Blasio's minimum wage proposal, calling it a non-starter with the state Legislature, as did a spokesman for Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.
Cuomo's proposal would create a two - tier system that would provide for a $ 11.50 minimum wage for the city and $ 10.50 elsewhere.
Meanwhile, de Blasio insisted Gov. Andrew Cuomo remains on board with a plan to allow local governments to increase the state's minimum wage on its own, based on a state formula even after the governor maneuvered to alter an initial proposal for pre-Kindergarten in New York City that took the idea statewide.
«While firm details remain elusive on the paid leave and minimum wage proposals, it is becoming clear that the path Albany is taking will be disastrous for New York's small employers,» said NFIB State Director Mike Durant.
Republican lawmakers in the Senate continue to express reservations with the proposal to increase the state's minimum wage to $ 15 over several years with different phase in periods for different regions of the state.
Polls show broad support for increasing the state's minimum wage and while Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn't taken a position on Silver's proposal, he's said he agrees in theory raising the wage wouldn't be the «job - killer» that Skelos has warned about.
Heastie also rejected a proposal to raise the minimum wage in New York City beginning next year up to $ 11.50 per hour — something that has been a big priority for Mayor Bill de Blasio.
He made the decision after the state Legislature refused to approve his proposal to raise the minimum wage for all workers.
A proposal to raise the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour is a top priority for Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York Farm Bureau, but they're on different sides of the issue.
Sources say one proposal on the table would be to hike the wage to $ 15 for New York City over three years.
The minimum wage proposal as backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a potentially difficult lift for Senate Republicans, whose allies in the business community oppose the agreement.
Tory chairman Grant Shapps said Labour's proposal to give a tax rebate to companies paying the living wage would lead to greater costs for government and taxpayers.
The average New Yorker knows a minimum wage increase would be beneficial to the state's economy; that's why two recent public opinion polls showed sizable majorities of New Yorkers — 62 % (Quinnipiac) and 59 % (Siena)-- support Governor Cuomo's proposal for a $ 15 minimum wage.
Other proposals regarding greater use of renewable energy, reducing student hunger, moving the New York Islanders to a new site in Nassau County and hearings about the elimination of a special minimum wage for tipped workers were pre-announced, piecemeal, over the last several weeks.
The speaker applauded Mr. Cuomo for recently embracing a $ 15 minimum wage and paid family leave, both proposals the governor had previously opposed.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared in both communities to rally for what he called a «fight for fairness» agenda that includes the leave proposal as well as his attempt to boost the minumum hourly wage to $ 15.
Cuomo has been pushing hard for a phased in $ 15 an hour minimum wage, putting the proposal into his state budget and campaigning for the measure with Vice President Joe Biden.
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Under the terms of the agreement, Cuomo would support local control for a minimum wage increase — a proposal he has previously opposed — as well as back a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate.
The state Business Council on Friday released new concerns over the proposed increase in the state's minimum wage to $ 15 as well as the proposal for a 12 - week paid family leave program.
Mr Smith will also emphasise the importance for lower paid workers in Wales of Labour's proposal to increase the minimum wage.
Meantime, a proposal floated by Ulster County lawmakers would establish a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage for county employees beginning on January 1st.
Johnson, who has no interest in becoming a pawn in the political battle that Cuomo and de Blasio have been waging for four years, responded with his own letter, claiming he had assented to nothing more than consideration of Cuomo's proposals.
The tuition plan joins additional policy proposals rolled out by Cuomo this month, including a tax credit program to make childcare more affordable, investments in JFK Airport and charging infrastructure for electric cars and stronger safeguards against wage theft, cyber threats and the financial exploitation of senior citizens.
While highlighting this proposal, the Governor announced that the State University of New York will raise the minimum wage for more than 28,000 employees.
«There is strong overall support from voters for the governor's proposal to increase the minimum wage to $ 15, however, there are wide partisan and geographic differences,» said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.
PROPOSAL 1: Restore economic justice by making New York the first state in the nation to enact a $ 15 minimum wage for all workers.
As momentum for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposal to raise the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour grows, opponents are trying to fight back.
The governor has said de Blasio waited too long into the legislative session to present his proposals, and he has criticized the mayor for excluding a required prevailing wage for construction workers involved in 421 - a development, a stance that has been praised by the trades unions.
Cuomo's proposal shirks promises he made to the Working Families Party last spring in exchange for its endorsement that he would back a plan to allow the city to increase its minimum wage in connection to the rate of inflation.
In Cuomo's proposal, state labor commissioner Roberta Reardon said it's hard for employers to keep track of their workers» tips and difficulties with recordkeeping open the door for wage theft and exploitation.
His $ 13 minimum wage was laughed out of town, only for Mr. Cuomo to bounce back with a $ 15 proposal.
The proposal would follow the July recommendation by a panel formed at Cuomo's request that the wage floor for just fast - food workers be raised to $ 15 by 2018 in New York City and by 2021 in the rest of the state.
As for low - wage employees, a recent study by Cornell and American University shows this bill would hurt the very people who the proposal is intended to protect.
Cuomo had been expected to propose a comprehensive minimum - wage increase, but he typically saves his major policy initiatives for unveiling in January, teeing up his proposals for the spring legislative session in his State of the State speech.
«Forcing small business owners to shoulder an unprecedented $ 15 minimum wage burden will have greater negative ramifications than the governor's tax cut proposal can make up for,» said Brandon Muir, executive director of Reclaim New York Center for Government Reform and Accountability.