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Posted on 03/17/2026 2:20:24 PM PDT by xxqqzz
Labor leaders, elected officials and community advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall on March 10 to launch the “$30 for Our City” campaign, backing legislation that would gradually raise New York City’s minimum wage to $30 an hour.
The bill, introduced by Sandy Nurse, would nearly double the city’s current $17 hourly minimum and phase in the increase over several years, reaching $30 by 2030 for large employers.
Supporters say the proposal is a response to the city’s worsening affordability crisis, arguing that wages have failed to keep pace with the cost of living.
“Costs are up and wages are down, pushing New Yorkers out of our city,” organizers said in announcing the campaign. “Earning the minimum wage shouldn’t mean living in poverty.”
The push has drawn support from a broad coalition including The Alliance for a Greater New York (ALIGN), the Amazon Labor Union, Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change, Teamsters Local 804 and the Workers Justice Project, along with several City Council members.
Under the proposal, companies with more than 500 employees would be required to pay workers at least $20 an hour by 2027 and reach $30 by 2030. Smaller employers would follow a slightly slower schedule, paying $21.50 by 2028 and reaching $30 by 2032. Future increases would then be tied to cost-of-living adjustments.
Nurse argued in her speech at the rally that the increase is necessary to keep pace with rising expenses in one of the country’s most expensive cities.
“We are so behind,” Nurse said, noting that several other major U.S. cities have moved faster to raise wage floors despite having lower living costs than New York.
The proposal reflects a key promise of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who supported a $30 minimum wage during his run for mayor.
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It would be better to cancel the income tax.
Gonna need it.
Mamdani’s 15 mph speed limit isn’t about safety, it’s a money grab
Perfect logic. Give me more taxable wages so people will tip me less in non taxable dollars.
EC
Someone seems to have told these jokers, “When you find yourself in a deep hole, KEEP DIGGING!!!”
Best I can do is 0.00
After the job devastation in California when they mandated a minimum wage of $20 an hour for fast food workers and yet they seek $30 an hour. Why not $100 an hour?
I’m convinced these Communists don’t care. They are hellbent on destroying the system. And they do it by dressing themselves up as the Robin Hood good guys. They are evil and destructive. They don’t care about workers.
Uh, it’s the other way around. The high cost of living is due to a high minimum wage.
Sandy Nurse? What is she, an adult film actress who specializes in beach movies?
Rising wages neither increases or decreases the unemployment rate. Check the historical data.
The minimum wages is probably the only thing delaying a Marxist revolution.
Exactly. Raise minimum wage and all those products that depend on minimum wage labor will rise in costs. Isn't that OBVIOUS?
Your higher wage will not help you with the cost of living because the cost of living will rise because of the higher labor costs.
Why not $60 or $100?
If you think wages have kept up with inflation over the last half century you’re on crack.
Because that would be ridiculous.
Depends. Mine have.
You are the one that said raising the wage to 15 bucks would raise a burger a quarter.
So if labor was free (slavery) then everything we buy would be free?
But $30 isn’t ridiculous?
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