NY Times: Cuomo’s Push to Raise Wages Lifts Spirits of New York’s Fast-Food Workers

[LiberalElite]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/nyregion/cuomos-push-to-raise-wages-lifts-spirits-of-new-yorks-fast-food-workers.html?_r=0

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The fast-food workers converged on Union Square in Manhattan last week, chanting and cheering and celebrating a man who some had viewed as a reluctant champion of their cause: Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York.

For months, some low-wage workers and their advocates have complained that Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, seemed unwilling to throw his considerable political muscle behind the effort to raise the state’s minimum wage. And indeed, this year he dropped his plan to boost the rate in the face of Republican opposition in the Legislature.

But on Thursday, the governor laid out a new plan to unilaterally raise the pay of the tens of thousands of fast-food workers in New York. He said he would direct the state labor commissioner to convene a panel to study wages in the industry and, within short order, “raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers to a livable wage.”
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[shenmue]

1. Good

Now if he can just stop messing up the schools.