ITHACA, N.Y.—Local electeds and labor leaders have gotten behind a statewide push to change the way Albany sets New York’s minimum wage.
On Thursday, officials and organizers appeared with the Tompkins County Workers’ Center, and the statewide advocacy coalition Raise Up NY, voicing their support for legislation that would make New York state’s minimum wage automatically rise from year to year with the cost of living, and productivity in the workforce.
New York state’s minimum wage will reach $14.20 across the state at the end of 2022, bringing upstate New York up from $13.20. It is scheduled to increase each year until it reached $15 per hour. The stepped minimum wage increase to reach this point began in 2017, but without another law to continue raising the wage, Raise Up NY contends that the current way the minimum wage increases leaves the financial well-being of workers “at the mercy of political winds and legislative fights every few years.”
A bill that would have made these changes stalled during New York State’s 2022 legislative session, but its sponsors in the state legislature, including Senator Jessica Ramos (D-13), have pledged to reintroduce it in January 2023. When that time comes, it seems the law will find plenty of support in liberal Tompkins County.
County Legislator Anne Koreman and City of Ithaca Alderperson Jorge DeFendini appeared alongside Stephanie Heslop, representing local Starbucks Workers United, as well as other workers in the community.
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