Making a surprise appearance on newly televised Paul Vandenburgh Show My4 Albany, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he was studying the minimum
wage proposal introduced by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver earlier today.
Not exact matches
During this year's negotiations over 421 - a renewal, the assemblyman
introduced legislation that would have required recipients of the tax break to pay these contractors a prevailing
wage, a
proposal critics derided as unnecessary and counterproductive in an industry where workers are already paid substantially more than an average worker's salary.
In his endorsement, Sanders touted Abrams»
proposals to expand the pre-kindergarten program, raise the minimum
wage,
introduce automatic voter registration and eliminate cash bail.
On Thursday, Diaz could boast that he worked with the mayor's office to jumpstart a new round of development
proposals for the armory this January, and that Speaker Quinn is likely to
introduce a bill this year that incorporates some of the living
wage proposals that Diaz called for in 2009.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been pushing the
proposal, which he says he'll
introduce to the legislature in January, to phase in the minimum
wage to $ 15 an hour by 2018 in the New York City region and 2021 upstate.