Madison Ralliers Resume Call For $15 Minimum Wage

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced a plan on Tuesday to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for all state workers. We fight for fairness.

Fight for 15 organizers say demonstrations were held in at least 270 locales, including Las Vegas, Fresno, Calif., Troy, Mich., Fairfax, Va. and Milwaukee, among others.

In NY City, where police guarded the entrance to this Harlem McDonald’s, the minimum wage for fast-food workers will rise to $15 by 2018, and will hit that level statewide by 2021.

Over the summer, Cuomo’s Labor Department, using the state regulatory process, gave fast-food workers a boost to $15, also phased-in over time – which a restaurant group is trying to block.

Cuomo’s announcement Tuesday came on a national day of action in cities across the country. “And furthermore I don’t understand why we didn’t just let the State take this on”, said Mayor Pro Tem, and mayoral candidate Angelique Ashby during the discussion of that law on October 27.

The Obama administration has been pushing for a more modest increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, but has been unable to get that through Congress.

NY Senate’s Republican declined to endorse the $15 minimum wage, saying the issue will be discussed in detail by his conference and predicting “some kind of compromise”.

McDonald’s Corp., based in Oak Brook, Illinois, said in a statement Tuesday that wages at USA restaurants it owns increased $1 over the local minimum wage in July, affecting about 90,000 employees.

The NY Times reported that the basic minimum wage in NY is now $8.75 and will increase to $9 before the end of 2015.

“I commend the governor, ” Miner said. Many U.S. cities and municipalities have a higher base rate than the federal hourly minimum of US$7.25.

Economists have long debated the impact of raising the minimum wage, and a few recent research has found that modest increases seldom cost many jobs.

The same question then went to Ben Carson, who said, “People need to be educated on the minimum wage”, before making clear that he needs to be educated on the minimum wage. During a news conference call today, Brown was joined by Artheta Peters, a home health care worker from Cleveland who earns less than $9 per hour without benefits or paid leave.