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Shantel Walker, 33, a worker at Papa John's for the last 10 years, speaks at the minimum wage rally in Manhattan outside the New York State Department of Labor.

Speaking after a minimum wage rally in Albany, Cuomo says he will continue to press lawmakers to pass ethics reform before the session ends in June.

Not exact matches

While consumers may have also benefitted from the stock market's Trump rally via their holdings in mutual funds and 401 (k) s, it didn't quite translate to their paychecks: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS), U.S. workers earned a median wage of about $ 43,380.48 in 2016 — a 2.8 % raise, or $ 1,214.65.

Although Japan's market has rallied this year, Morgan Stanley's strategists note that investors haven't fully priced in earnings growth, wage inflation and support from external demand.

Earlier in the day, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared alongside Cuomo to rally for the passage of a minimum wage increase.

Also at 10 a.m., Rochester - area leaders participate in a rally calling for the governor and Legislature to accelerate the process and ensure that direct support professionals receive the living wage they are entitled to — and that was agreed to in the state budget passed in April — by 2020, Heritage Christian Services» Pieters Family Life Center, 1025 Commons Way, Rochester.

Comedian Amy Poehler joined a group of One Fair Wage supporters in midtown to rally for tipped workers to be more fairly compensated and protected against sexual harassment, saying: «Let's just stop under - serving the many people who serve us.»

Workers in restaurants, nail salons and car washes rallied to kick off a campaign to push for one single minimum wage, instead of the $ 7.50 to $ 8.65 tipped workers currently take home, which is below the state's minimum wage of $ 10.40 to $ 13, depending on the area of the state.

The AFL - CIO has been pushing back hard in particular against the mayor's plan as well, while a rally of labor groups was held at the Capitol today to back the prevailing wage component.

In this Tuesday, March 15, 2016 photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo leaves a minimum wage rally at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, N.In this Tuesday, March 15, 2016 photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo leaves a minimum wage rally at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, N.in Albany, N.Y.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a rally to raise the minimum wage on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo / Mike Groll)

State lawmakers with disabled children, along with people with developmental disabilities and their caregivers, rallied Monday at the State Capitol for more money in the budget to pay caregivers a living wage.

Clinton joined Gov. Cuomo on Monday at a celebratory rally at the Javits Center as he signed a minimum - wage hike to $ 15 an hour in much of the state.

Miner spokesman Alexander Marion said the mayor has been an advocate in the minimum wage fight since the beginning, publishing an op - ed in the Buffalo News last August and speaking at a rally in February at the People's AME Zion Church.

Cuomo gathered together the same union coalition who have joined him to back the $ 15 an hour minimum wage effort in the campaign - style rally for his newest cause.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, at a union rally in New York City's Union Square to raise the minimum wage, called out fast food chains McDonalds and Burger King by name.

Servers and other tipped workers from around New York state will rally at SUNY - ESF on Monday to protest the end of the minimum wage tip credit in the restaurant industry.

«Every working man and woman in the state of New York deserves $ 15 an hour as a minimum wage,» Cuomo shouted at rally last fall.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared in both communities to rally for what he called a «fight for fairness» agenda that includes the leave proposal as well as his attempt to boost the minumum hourly wage to $ 15.

New York Governor Cuomo, at a large union rally to raise the minimum wage in New York City's Union Square, called out fast food chains McDonald's and Burger King by name Thursday and accused them of «corporate greed» for underpaying workers.

Prior to holding a rally at the Cohoes high school, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton held an event in New York City with Governor Cuomo and top state Democratic lawmakers, to celebrate the state's passage of an increase to the state's minimum wage.

Kathy Hochul speaks during a rally before a meeting of the wage board in New York.

Cuomo was in Rochester and Syracuse on Wednesday, attending rallies for a minimum wage increase.

At a raucous rally at the Capitol on Tuesday, Governor Cuomo announced he would back the pay boost, which aligns direct care workers with a faster increase in the state's minimum wage, initially approved in 2015.

The union's targeting of Miner - who spoke at a Fight for $ 15 rally in February at a Syracuse church - shows the no - holds - barred fight going on over the proposed minimum wage hike as the state's top political leaders are negotiating whether it will be included in the state budget.

They need to stay in the City of New York,» Wright said during a 90 - minute rally of hundreds of construction workers blasting the mayor for leaving out the prevailing wage requirement.

Bronx resident Jorel Ware, 35, a McDonald's employee, told the Observer after the rally that the labor secretary should be someone who wants to support the 64 million people that «don't make a living wage in this country.»

New York City fast food workers, union leaders and City Council members rallied in front of a federal Labor Department office this morning to demand President - elect Donald Trump drop his nominee to head the agency — minimum wage critic and Hardees / Carl's Jr. chain CEO Andrew Puzder.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is touting the wage increase at a rally of the politically influential Hotel and Motel Trades Council in New York City this morning.

In June, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the wage board's chairman and a longtime Cuomo ally, said he and his fellow members clearly believed «a substantial» increase was needed to bring fast food workers up the economic ladder — despite persistent opposition from the business community, which often found itself drowned out at public hearings that served more or less as labor rallies.

At 11 a.m., advocates for people with developmental disabilities will hold a rally in front of the #bFair2DirectCare electronic billboard in Times Square to highlight the need to for the state to cover the cost of paying direct service providers a living wage, Manhattan.

New York City fast food workers, union leaders and Council members rallied in front of a federal Labor Department office to demand that Trump drop his nominee to head the agency — minimum wage critic and Hardees / Carl's Jr. chain CEO Andrew Puzder.

Clinton joined Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a victory rally celebrating the $ 15 minimum wage deal in the state budget, even though she does not support a $ 15 minimum wage at the federal level.

And on Monday at the rally, Cuomo confirmed workers in the SUNY system would receive a $ 15 minimum wage as well.

Also at 11 a.m., fast - food workers and allies rally and meet with NYC Council members to urge them to quickly pass a set of bills to ensure they and other low - wage workers «hold onto gains they've won as US workers face an uncertain future under a new presidential administration in Washington,» City Hall, Manhattan.

He'll be in NYC today for a major rally with labor unions to drum up support for his $ 15 statewide minimum wage proposal.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined Vice President Joseph Biden Thursday at a rally in New York City to push for a higher minimum wage across the state.

Governor Cuomo, at a large union rally in NYC's Union Square to raise the minimum wage, called out fast food chains McDonalds and Burger King by name and accused them of «corporate greed» for under paying 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.

Religious leaders rallied at the State Capitol to push for an increase in the state's minimum wage.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo pushed Monday for paid family leave legislation and an increase in the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour at a rally with labor leaders and elected Democrats in Hauppauge.

Supporters of a $ 15 minimum wage for fast food workers rally in front of a McDonald's in Albany, N.Y., July 22, 2015.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Kingston during a rally in support of raising the minimum wage to $ 15 for all workers.

Some had attended previous hearings in adjacent rooms, before a wage board convened by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, that had the feeling of campaign rallies.

KINGSTON — Small businesses won't be hurt by an increase in the minimum wage, Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted during a rally here on Wednesday, because of a tax cut he's also advancing and increased consumer spending.

«When we were waging the fight to pass a living wage bill, Bill de Blasio didn't show up to a single rally, didn't testify once, didn't send a letter of support and our pleas for his support fell on deaf ears until the very last moment when he saw a poll that showed it had widespread support,» Appelbaum said in a statement.

He followed up on the minimum wage in a major way, with a union - backed lobbying vehicle (figuratively and literally — there was an RV) and rallies around the state.

«I don't think... anyone in good faith could leave Albany until we get things done, like at least the pension forfeiture bill which we agreed to last year — which still hasn't been passed — the LLC loophole, which is just an obvious anomaly that could be passed easily, in my opinion, which would at least reflect the sense of the people that this has been a wholly unprecedented year in terms of investigations of legislators,» the governor said after speaking at a minimum wage rally outside the Capitol.

At a press conference and rally following the wage board decision, Cuomo said the day was among the best in his five - year stint as governor.