The lobby group's budget analysis singled out the minimum
wage proposal backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Democratic lawmakers and wage and labor advocates as the «most significant new business cost» in the spending plan.
Not exact matches
The minimum
wage proposal as
backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a potentially difficult lift for Senate Republicans, whose allies in the business community oppose the agreement.
Cuomo has not taken on a position on the Silver
proposals or a similar measure that's
backed by Sen. Adriano Espaillat, though has supported past
wage hikes.
Under the terms of the agreement, Cuomo would support local control for a minimum
wage increase — a
proposal he has previously opposed — as well as
back a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate.
That was evident in the wake of Cuomo's latest minimum
wage proposal, which was hailed by his allies in 1199 SIEU and HTC, (which happen to provide funding to the labor -
backed party), but deemed not good enough in an official WFP statement.
As momentum for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's
proposal to raise the state's minimum
wage to $ 15 an hour grows, opponents are trying to fight
back.
Cuomo's
proposal shirks promises he made to the Working Families Party last spring in exchange for its endorsement that he would
back a plan to allow the city to increase its minimum
wage in connection to the rate of inflation.
His $ 13 minimum
wage was laughed out of town, only for Mr. Cuomo to bounce
back with a $ 15
proposal.
Leaked emails suggest internal dissension over the minimum -
wage proposal HRC later
backed.
Assembly Democrats and unions have been pushing for an increase the minimum
wage, and polls show most New Yorker's
back the
proposal.
The new minimum
wage proposal in the Assembly is
backed by Labor Committee Chairman Carl Heastie and Assemblyman Keith Wright, the state Democratic Party co-chairman (his other party co-chair, Syracuse's Stephanie Miner, broke with Cuomo on his pension smoothing plan that is also in the budget).
A majority of voters continue to
back the minimum
wage being set at $ 15, a
proposal that still must be approved by skeptical Republicans who control the state Senate.
The speaker called for the
wage hike in a legislative election year and polls show that the
proposal has broad support among New York voters, with more than 80 percent
backing it.
The Reality Check Campaign plans to share this video with lawmakers and tens of thousands of employers in New York over the next several weeks in hopes of countering a strong labor -
backed push for Cuomo's
wage proposal.
As momentum for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's
proposal to raise the state's minimum
wage to $ 15 an hour grows, opponents are trying to fight
back.
A more modest
proposal by Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, to raise the national minimum
wage to $ 12 an hour won the
backing of the Obama administration and several key congressional Democrats this spring.
The mayor said the city would
back state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's (D - Manhattan)
proposal to raise the minimum
wage in the state above the federal standard.
At the time, Cuomo appeared to agree to
back the mayor's
proposal to allow the city to raise its minimum
wage up to 30 percent higher than the state's (as well as other WFP -
backed policies and a Democratic takeover of the state Senate).
Assembly Democrats and unions have been pushing for an increase in the minimum
wage, and polls show most New Yorkers
back the
proposal.