Sentences with phrase «demanding wage hikes»
The union's contract expired at the end of 2013, and as the local mayoral election heated up in Albany, blue - collar workers came out in force protesting Sheehan's pay increases for nonunion employees and demanded wage hikes.
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The metaphors were clear and painful for Mayor Bill de Blasio's first budget war with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a master of Albany's byzantine backrooms — Mr. Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, had schooled the upstart Mr. de Blasio this year, securing new and unprecedented protections for charter schools, denying Mr. de Blasio a tax hike to fund his universal prekindergarten expansion and swatting away a demand for a municipal minimum wage increase barely after the words had left the mayor's mouth at his maiden State of the City address.
It also explains, said the source, Cuomo's embrace of Big Labor's demand for a nearly 70 percent minimum wage hike to $ 15 an hour — which could devastate small businesses at a time the governor claims to want to improve New York's notoriously hostile business climate.
They're demanding an immediate hike in the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.