Fox’s Neil Cavuto noted to Donald Trump that NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is moving forward with a plan for a $15 minimum wage for state workers, and the moderator asked the candidate is he’s “sympathetic” to protestors demanding a national increase.
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Over the summer Mr Cuomo raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour for fast food workers. Another 9,000 upstate employees would see an increase over the following three years.
In July, McDonald’s implemented a salary policy guaranteeing that workers at company-owned restaurants are paid $1 an hour more than the prevailing minimum wage in the communities where the eateries are located. The increase will take effect first for state workers in NY City, where the cost of living is highest, fully phasing in by the end of 2018. Healthcare workers in California have collected 500,000 signatures to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2021. We are restoring the fairness and economic justice that built the American dream and standing up for what’s right. The local protests are organized by the Service Employees worldwide Union.
“I think that it’s important that everybody hears what is being said, and what we believe in as people”, Gardner said.
Cuomo has already enacted a $15 minimum wage for fast-food workers. And you add up the numbers: You can’t pay for food and clothing and housing here on $18,000 a year. “Franchise owners say the increase singles them out and gives an unfair advantage to mom-and-pop competitors that won’t have to raise wages”, reports Fox News.
“I don’t understand why we didn’t work as a region”. Union organizers say about 100 workers in Minneapolis walked off their jobs at about 70 stores.
The crowd outside the City County building contained people from a variety of positions, including fast food workers, children of minimum wage workers and various elected officials. Kline says the push for a higher wage will pick up steam heading into the presidential election year.
While that’s very good news, many people work one or even two jobs and still can not provide for their families.
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Workers across the Denver metro area joined thousands of others across the country on Tuesday to demand a better living wage in a movement called “Fight for 15 Day”.
