Governor Cuomo to Hike Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour for State Workers

New York Magazine ^ | 11/10/15 | Nathan Pemberton

[sergeantdave]

“I have the piano wire ready, when the time comes.”

Most excellent, good sir. Did you get your training from the Julliard School in New York or the Eastman School of Music?

[fhayek]

Music? Who said anything about music?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Well, of course. Once the floor wage for the state employees is lifted, the SEIU will negotiate increases above that floor for everyone who was making more.

Voila! Instant raise for all state employees!

[Intolerant in NJ]

Remind me to stay out of New York - prices there will be on the rise to cover this stupidity.....

[vpintheak]

And, the legislature and taxpayers say what about it? Like it matters I guess...

[fhayek]

Just to be perfectly clear here, the minimum wage in New York State remains at $8.75. It is scheduled to rise to $9.00 at the end of the year. Democrats, and unions in the state would LOVE to raise the minimum wage in the state. The only problem is, unbelievably enough, the New York State Senate is controlled by Republicans! Now, I grant you, New York Republicans are not the same as normal Republicans. Nonetheless, the Democrats cannot raise the minimum wage through, standard democratic mechanisms, so they are taking a page from BO and doing an end around. First, Cuomo's state Labor Department mandated a raise of the minimum wage for fast food workers to $15.00 due to take effect in 2021. (how THAT was legal is beyond me). Now he is mandating a raise for state employees to $15.00 an hour.

The effect, is to put upward pressure on all wages. I mean, these increases will force employers to, in some degree, follow suit, in order to retain good employees. Mandating wage increases, one sector at a time, all outside the legislative process.

[ronnie raygun]

$15 dollars an hour for fast food losers and the douchebag mayor’s arbitrator offers the NYPD a 1 percent raise. Over 250 assaults on staff this year in NYC jails. The criminal on the outside are added and abetted by the criminals on the inside