Sentences with phrase «higher minimum wage for fast food workers»
While supporters are declaring victory over New York's new higher minimum wage for fast food workers, the action, by a state wage board, highlights a larger question: why are so many in the state dependent for their livelihoods on what are essentially entry level workforce jobs?
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His advocates note that he's pushed parts of the Women's Equality Act and introduced the (un-passed) Dream Act in his budget, in addition to compiling progressive achievements including a ban on fracking and impaneling a board to recommend a higher minimum wage for fast food workers.
He said the Cuomo's administration should revoke the wage board rulings that set the higher minimum wage for fast food workers.
Not exact matches
The three members of a state board meeting in Albany to consider minimum wage increases for New York's fast - food workers say salaries should rise, though they haven't immediately determined how high and when.
The Fight for $ 15 isn't universally popular: Some people wonder why fast food workers deserve higher pay than other minimum wage workers.
Workers in the fast food industry, tipped positions, and all other industries will get a higher wage starting today as Governor Cuomo continues to push for a $ 15 statewide minimum wage.
Gov. Cuomo's push for a higher minimum wage for fast - food workers directly affects Bruce Colley, who reportedly had an affair with Cuomo's then - wife in 2003 and is one of the...
Scharff, with Citizen Action believes that even without a law to raise the minimum wage for all sectors of the economy, retail businesses will pay their workers more, or risk losing them to higher paying fast food jobs.
New York state will gradually raise the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 an hour — the first time any state has set the minimum that high.