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GOP Leader John Flanagan reacted to Governor Cuomo's plan to submit legislation to raise the minimum wage for all workers in the state when the new session starts in January.

GOP leader John Flanagan reacted to Cuomo's plan to submit legislation to raise the minimum wage for all workers in the state when the new session starts in January.

A national restaurant organization is challenging New York's move toward a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage for fast - food workers.

At a rally in Manhattan, the Democratic governor shared the stage with national labor leaders after a state wage board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 and hour, delivering a key victory in a national push by unions — led by Service Employees International Union — to improve the lot of (and unionize) employees at McDonald's, Burger King and other chains.

Governor Cuomo announced he's raising the minimum wage for state workers to $ 15 an hour.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo will put together a Wage Board that can raise the state's minimum wage for fast - food workers without legislative approval.

Last week, that union cheered loudest as Cuomo pushed through an increase in the minimum wage for fast - food workers.

The announcement comes on the same day that Acting State Labor Commissioner Mario Musolino signed an order designating the $ 15 per hour statewide minimum wage for fast food workers.

The co-chairmen of the General Assembly's Labor and Public Employees Committee cheered the recommendation from a wage board in New York to phase in a $ 15 minimum wage for workers in large fast food chains.

Cuomo, speaking to the union members, renewed his call to raise the state's minimum wage for non tipped workers to $ 10.50 an hour, $ 11.50 in New York City.

Mr. Lipton, who has campaigned for better pay for low - wage workers for years, said, «There's clearly a new standard for the minimum wage, and it's actually a living wage for the first time in many, many decades.»

But Governor Cuomo offered a carve out from the $ 15 minimum wage for farmers, though he provided no details.

Cuomo, at a union rally in New York City, announced he will raise the minimum wage for state workers to $ 15 an hour by 2018 in New York City and 2021 in the rest of the state.

Cuomo faced pressure from the left in his party to further increase the state's minimum wage for non tipped workers.

People who clean NYC's streets and parks will be left out of the mayoral edict to raise the minimum wage for public workers because they are not directly employed by the city.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein is backing legislation that would provide a boost in the minimum wage for home - care attendants to $ 15 by raising the cap on Medicaid.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner made her support for raising the pay of the lowest - paid workers more than rhetorical by increasing the minimum wage for the city's employees to $ 15 an hour, effective immediately.

Cuomo has formed a campaign coalition named in honor of his late father to push for a $ 15 minimum wage after taking executive action this past summer to gradually increase the wage for SUNY and state workers as well as fast - food employees.

A large turnout for yesterday's Ithaca Common Council meeting bore witness to a historic moment for laborers in Tompkins County as the city, joining with the Town of Ithaca, chose to support a living wage for all workers in the county.

In a Daily News OpEd, Gov. Andrew Cuomo calls on the Port Authority to raise the minimum wage for airport workers to $ 15 an hour, saying that will put «thousands of families on the path to financial independence and a brighter future.»

At the rally, the governor will announce an executive action to raise the minimum wage for state university workers to $ 15.

State leaders in New York would be seizing a historic opportunity — as well as doing the right thing — to make $ 15 an hour the minimum wage for the entire state.»

Later, he announced he would move to increase the wage for state workers who fall under the executive branch to $ 15.

Continuing a push for the payment of higher wages for public - sector jobs, Cuomo announced a plan to raise the minimum wage for state university workers to $ 15.

Cuomo in the summer moved to administratively increase the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 over the next several years.

Some Syracuse Common Council members have voiced their support for Mayor Stephanie Miner's decision to raise the wage for all full - time city workers to $ 15 per hour.

At 2 p.m., Sens. Jeff Klein and Diane Savino, 1199 SEIU President George Gresham, and 1199 home and healthcare workers rally for a $ 15 minimum wage for home health aides, direct care workers and personal care aides, 310 W. 43rd St., auditorium, Manhattan.

The proposal comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo in recent months has pushed for a broader minimum wage increase and through executive authority hiked the wage for workers in the fast - food industry as well as state and SUNY employees.

This would mean that anyone over 25 who has been receiving JobSeeker's Allowance for 2 years or more and anyone under 25 who has been receiving JobSeeker's Allowance for 1 year or more would get a guaranteed job, paying at least the minimum wage for 25 hours a week and training of at least 10 hours a week.

The BFAWU works to ensure that employees are secure and safe in their workplace — and that they are paid an equitable wage for the work they do.

My voting record in the Senate reflects their agenda — on issues ranging from the fight against fracking to women's rights and raising the minimum wage for working families,» Tkaczyk said in a statement.

As expected, lawyers for the National Retaurant Association have filed a court challenge to the Cuomo administration's plan to increase the minimum wage for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour through an administrative order that circumvented the Legislature.

At 11 a.m., as the governor's wage board holds its third public hearing, workers and advocates will call on the Wage Board to eliminate the sub-minimum wage for the 230,000 tipped workers in New York State, Mahoney State Office Building, Hearing Room Part 6, 65 Court St., Buffalo.

The push to raise the minimum wage for fast - food workers in New York was part of a broader campaign conducted nationally to increase wages to $ 15, a movement that has had success in Los Angeles and Seattle.

And he's also spoken of the effort to make New York the first in the nation to back the $ 15 wage for all workers as one that will have a national impact.

How does it make sense to have a minimum wage for one class of workers when state workers — there's many that don't make $ 15 an hour.

Cuomo instead convened a wage board at the state Department of Labor to review potential changes to the minimum wage for workers in the fast - food industry, giving a nod to a growing campaign for better wages in that sector.

In an interview on Capital Tonight on Friday, the Syracuse Republican came out swinging at the wage board convened by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, decrying the move to increase the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 «lunacy» and a way to apply political pressure to opponents.

And it's hit a new low over the battle on 421a, with Cuomo taking a pro-union stance and de Blasio arguing that the need for housing trumped the issue of a prevailing wage for workers.

The governor used the remarks, too, to reiterated his desire to see the re-establishment of the 421a tax credit for construction projects that includes a prevailing wage for hiring union labor.

You suggested # 1,500; we're offering businesses # 2,275 — half the minimum wage for a young person.

Next Wednesday, the New York wage board, convened by Governor Andrew Cuomo, is expected to make its recommendation for raising the state - wide minimum wage for fast food workers to $ 15.

The large group of A-listers, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman and more, signed onto a letter sent to New York's Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo demanding that he sign a bill to raise the minimum wage for tipped restaurant workers, the New York Post reported.

The influential labor union 32BJ on Wednesday endorsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's bid for a third term this year, citing his push for a paid family leave program and a $ 19 minimum wage for airport workers.

«On behalf of the half - million New Yorkers invested in our fight for a living wage for direct care workers, we want to express our gratitude for the tremendous support we've received from members of the Senate and Assembly,» the campaign said in a statement.

«He has delivered a $ 15 minimum wage for New Yorkers, 12 weeks of paid family leave, a $ 19 minimum wage for over 40,000 New York - area airport workers and championed many other pieces of legislation that have made working families in our state better off.

In an email, Cuomo spokeswoman Dani Lever said, «The SUNY board agreed to raise the minimum wage for their employees, and if CUNY wants to do the same, we would be happy to work with them on a plan.»

In addition to a minimum wage for all workers, specific minimums were set for fast food workers and workers who get tipped.

Cuomo announced that he would ask the legislature this year to again increase the minimum wage for all New Yorkers, with the goal of achieving a $ 15 hourly pay rate.

«CUNY supports Governor Cuomo's initiative on increasing the minimum wage for public employees,» he said.