Charlottesville workers hold protest for higher minimum wage

“A lot of people out here are making minimum wage, and I really do think that $15 would really help not only me, but everyone else”.

The $15 an hour wage would be phased in through 2018 in NY City and then by 2021 statewide, Cuomo’s office said. Alas, the rest of us, who pay taxes, wouldn’t participate in the City Council’s largess. The Governor’s administration ultimately accepted that wage board’s recommendations, setting the stage for an increase in wages for tipped workers from $4.90, $5.00 and $5.65 to $7.50 per hour on December 31, 2015.

Miner announced an immediate increase in Syracuse’s minimum wage October 21, which affected 61 current employees.

In NY, the governor has already signed off on $15.00 and hour for fast food workers there, which will be phased in over the next six years.

A Pasadenans for a Livable Wage campaign is trying to measure popular support for a $15 an hour wage in the City of Roses. Workers were out in full force at a local Wendy’s in Rhode Island, hoping for change.

“What you are doing and workers all over the United States are doing, you are having a profound impact”, Sanders said. State workers outside the city will also experience wage hikes gradually and would get to $15 an hour by the end of 2021. Demonstrators say they vow to make a $15 an hour minimum wage and the right for workers to organize an election issue in 2016.

Protesters came from all over Southern California to take part in the Downtown march, which was Los Angeles’ second such march of the day. And you add up the numbers, you can’t pay for housing and food and clothing on $18,000 a year, period.

A delegation of low-wage workers plans to visit Gov. Charlie Baker’s office Tuesday afternoon to deliver a letter to the governor calling on him to rebuke statements made by Republican Party members about the minimum wage, immigration matters and the Black Lives Matter movement. “Put $15 on our check!”

“In America, today what we are seeing is the richest people becoming richer, and nearly everybody else becoming poorer”, said the democratic candidate, pictured above at the event, attended by dozens of striking US Senate cafeteria workers.

There are 277,622 active employees on the state payroll.