Sentences with phrase «idea of a minimum wage increase»

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This year, Cuomo has put the proposal to increase the minimum wage to $ 8.75 an hour into his budget in January, giving Republicans the choice of accepting the idea or potentially rejecting the entire state spending plan.

But Potrikus says it's not a matter anymore of «if» the minimum wage will be increased in New York, it's now a question of «when» the increasingly popular idea will be adopted.

Activist Mark Dunlea works with the Campaign For A Real Minimum Wage Increase: «We do agree his [Cuomo's] idea of trying to do it just for fast - food workers but particularly only for fast - food workers for certain large companies, 30 franchises, does raise some legal questions about his strategy.»

So in May he started repair work with the announcement that a state wage board would consider the idea of increasing the minimum pay of fast - food workers.

Trading a minimum wage increase for a legislative pay raise is rated a «bad idea» by 70 percent of voters.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a bevy of policy ideas ranging from an increase to the state's minimum wage, equal pay for women and the toughest gun control laws in the nation in his third State of the State address.

When Mayor Bill de Blasio suggested last year that he would ask Albany for permission to increase the city's minimum wage, Cuomo dismissed the idea of local governments setting their own rates.

Last year he moved a staggered minimum wage increase and a paid family leave bill through the legislature only a few months after he and his staff rebuked the idea of passing both as flights of fancy.