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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — No matter where you work, there is a push to dramatically bring up the minimum amount you can make. The minimum wage for Upstate New York has already increased by more than 46 percent since 2016. Right now it is at $14.20 per hour, but a new proposal would bring it up another seven dollars over the next four years.

Guercio and Sons manager, Vinnie Guercio, said that the increase would do more harm than good.

"It's just a tough business right now. This industry is just tough right now," Guercio said.

Since the pandemic, Guercio said they are still trying to regroup at the Grant Street grocery store.

"These last few years have been a struggle," he said.

In a press conference on Tuesday, Senator Sean Ryan along with community members are pushing for three policies that they say will fight inflation and support working families:

• End Predatory Court Fees Act which would eliminate the mandatory court surcharge
• Delinquent Property Tax Interest Rate Cap which would cap the interest rate on back property taxes
• Raise the Wage Act which would gradually increase the minimum wage across the state to $21.25 by 2027

"That would go a long way to offset rising housing costs, food costs, and general cost of living here in Western New York," Russell Weaver, Director of Research at Cornell University ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, said.

Weaver said 200,000 workers in the Buffalo-Niagara area would reap the benefits from this wage increase.

"The wage...

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