It is now looking at whether to raise the minimum
wage for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour, and could decide as early as next week.
But both backers and opponents of the multi year phase in to $ 15 an
hour for fast food workers say there's a larger concern here.
An hourly rate of # 10, an end to zero hour contracts and recognition of the unions - all key points in the latest
campaign for fast food worker's rights.
There is a movement across may parts of the country to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour — and not
just for fast food workers.
The governor says he'll bypass the legislature and create a state board to examine increasing the state's minimum
wage for fast food workers.
A wage board convened by Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to vote to raise the hourly minimum
rate for fast food workers in New York state from the current $ 8.75 cents an hour to as high as $ 15 an hour when it meets on Wednesday.
The fourth and final hearing was held by a board specially appointed Governor Andrew Cuomo to consider raising the minimum wage
for fast food workers in New York.
That did not stop advocates from protesting at the Dunkin' Donuts at the state Capitol, saying the governor's recently phased in wage
increase for fast food workers is too slow.
A wage board appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, speaking before a packed crowd of fast food workers, says it will authorize a substantial
raise for fast food workers, but would not say when, or even if the increase would be the $ 15 an hour that many groups are seeking.
Cuomo could actually do an end - run around lawmakers as he
did for fast food workers earlier this year when they received an increase.
Mr. Figueroa was another player in the major effort to increase the minimum wage in the state,
first for fast food workers and then for everyone.
Citizen Action's Karen Scharff: «We're out here today with workers striking McDonald's and other fast food companies because it's time we get fifteen dollars an hour and a
union for fast food workers.»
Voters in his district deserve to know whose interests he has been representing because when it comes to a fair wage, it hasn't been theirs,» said Hector Figueroa, president of SEIU Local 32BJ, which led the drive last year to get $ 15 an hour
approved for fast food workers.
Mr. de Blasio's announcement today follows a flurry of similar policy initiatives that Mr. Cuomo, after his skepticism of the State Legislature, rolled out unilaterally over the last year: first, a $ 15 - an - hour wage
for fast food workers through a special wage board, then the same for state public employees last November, and most recently for SUNY employees Monday — complete with a call for the city to follow.
During a rally today aimed at raising the minimum wage
for fast food workers Governor Cuomo declared that «I don't use those words «income inequality.»»
At 9:15 a.m., NYC Public Advocate Tish James, NYC Department of Consumer Affairs Commissioner Lorelei Salas, NYC Councilman I. Daneek Miller, 32BJ SEIU President Hector Figueroa and others urge passage of a package of
bills for fast food workers, City Hall steps, Manhattan.
Even if they voted against the minimum wage hike, senators feared Cuomo might use his hand - picked wage board to unilaterally increase the state's minimum wage, like he did last
year for fast food workers.
Cuomo proposed raising the minimum wage to $ 15 for all workers after his administration approved gradually hiking the wage to that
level for fast food workers, state government employees and State University of New York employees.
It is great that the bakers» union has taken up the fight for # 10 an hour and union rights
for fast food workers here, and that's why me and my workmates have joined the union.»
The wage board appointed by Governor Cuomo voted unanimously to phase in a major increase in the minimum wage
for fast food workers over the next few years.
A wage board convened by Governor Cuomo is expected to vote to raise the hourly minimum rate
for fast food workers from the current $ 8.75 an hour to as high as $ 15 an hour when it meets on Wednesday.
Though Mr. Cuomo compelled a wage board in July to phase in a $ 15 wage
for fast food workers statewide, he has thrown cold water on proposed minimum wage hikes in the past.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that job
growth for fast food workers will be as fast as the average for all occupations through 2020.
Mr. Cuomo said this minimum wage proposal, like the since - approved
hike for fast food workers, would be phased in, but offered no other details.
The owner of several Arby's franchises in his district has told him that he will have to close a few of the restaurants because a Cuomo appointed wage board approved last year raising the minimum wage
for fast food workers across the state to $ 15 an hour by 2021.
The governor convened a wage board that eventually led the state's Department of Labor to increase the minimum hourly
rate for fast food workers, arguing that the industry should be singled out because many of its employees also receive public assistance.
A wage board appointed by Governor Cuomo, speaking before a packed crowd of fast food workers, says it will authorize a «substantial»
raise for fast food workers, but would not say when or even if the increase would be the $ 15 an hour that many groups are seeking.
If this hadn't passed, Cuomo would have used his executive powers of control over the wage board and done it anyway like he
did for fast food workers.
Cuomo said he wants to make New York the first U.S. state to adopt a $ 15 an hour minimum for everyone, not
just for fast food workers.
Phrases with «for fast food workers»