N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Enacts $15 Hourly Fast Food Minimum Wage

[BarryDonegan]

http://truthinmedia.com/cuomo-15-fast-food-minimum-wage/

Rather than putting the question to a vote by the New York State Legislature, N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo enacted a $15 per hour minimum wage for fast food workers in the state by first creating and appointing an unelected Fast Food Wage Board which recommended the policy for approval by New York State Commissioner of Labor Mario Musolino, who then issued a wage order imposing the mandate on fast food businesses.

 

[euphemia]

It won't help. Given the high rents in the NYC area, it won't begin to provide a living for families, which is why I assume the governor signed the order. Median rents in the Bronx, the cheapest of the five boroughs is around $1500 a month, and that's for a tiny hole in the wall.

 

[dannno]

I'm glad they are doing it there first so everybody can see what a disaster it is.

 

[jllundqu]

 

[phill4paul]

Erecting multitudes of offices and sending hither and thither un-elected offices to eat out our substance. Regulation without representation. I'm sure that everyone except fast food business are ecstatic about it though.

 

[euphemia]

It's really pathetic to see what passes for an apartment in NYC. $1500 a month would buy a very nice home here. It would more than pay for a nice apartment here.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

NY State is different from NY City. If this were just in the city it would have almost no impact at all, on account of the already extreme cost of living there. Either the food prices would double but nobody would notice except tourists, or they would transition to ordering kiosks like Sheetz laying off half of their employees and the food prices remain roughly the same. Out in the rest of the State however it'll be hit and miss considering the cost of living fluctuations in New York. I don't support price controls because they inevitably backfire, but I have to sympathize with some poor schlep trying to live in NYC on a $9 30hr McJob. I don't know how they would do it without working 3 jobs, or selling pirated DVD's out of their trunk.

 

[euphemia]

I hear you, Gunny. That's why people need to give careful consideration about how they want to live and put the pieces in place to make that happen. Nobody should be working at McDonald's indefinitely. It's not meant to be a living wage for anyone. It's supposed to help a teenager have date money.

 

[phill4paul]

I hear you, Gunny. That's why people need to give careful consideration about how they want to live and put the pieces in place to make that happen. Nobody should be working at McDonald's indefinitely. It's not meant to be a living wage for anyone. It's supposed to help a teenager have date money.

That's what it was for me when I was 16. Didn't take long to move on to the next better paying job. About six-months.

 

[brandon]

Confused about if this applies to the state or just the city. The article seems to imply both at different times. I imagine it's just the city, right?

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Confused about if this applies to the state or just the city. The article seems to imply both at different times. I imagine it's just the city, right?

If it's just the city, then it will have the same effect on the economy as a couple drops of dye has on the pacific ocean. Don't misunderstand me, I'm certainly not recommending this, I'm just saying the cost of living is already so high in the city that only the tourists will notice that the cost of a McBurger doubles.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Stupid is as stupid does as my momma always said

 

[Anti Federalist]

Erecting multitudes of offices and sending hither and thither un-elected offices to eat out our substance. Regulation without representation. I'm sure that everyone except fast food business are ecstatic about it though.

Exactly.

Amazing that, even here, the argument is over the economics of $15 an hour wages, and NOT the fact that this was decreed by King Cuomo to be "the Law".

 

[69360]

If this is the whole state, a lot of people in upstate new york with skilled but low paying jobs are are about to say f it quit their jobs and go flip burgers at mcdonalds.

 

[tod evans]

Does this mean from now on you'll have your order taken by a clean and reasonably presentable english speaking polite employee?

Clean floors and bathrooms?

 

[Lucille]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-24/mcdonalds-responds-minimum-wage-protests

 

[Anti Federalist]

Confused about if this applies to the state or just the city. The article seems to imply both at different times. I imagine it's just the city, right?

If this is the whole state, a lot of people in upstate new york with skilled but low paying jobs are are about to say f it quit their jobs and go flip burgers at mcdonalds.

According to the article, the "Wage Board" wrote the rule and NYC fast food joints must comply by 2018 and the rest of the state by 2012.

But it seems that it still must go through some sort of legislative process:

Flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday proposed that the state adopt what would be the nation’s highest minimum wage—$15 an hour—embracing a cause dear to liberal Democrats and setting him up for a fierce fight with the state legislature.

“If you work full time, you shouldn’t have to live in poverty—plain and simple,” Mr. Cuomo said at a rally in Manhattan. “The truth is, it’s wrong to have an economy where the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, where the American dream of mobility and opportunity has become more of a cruel myth.”

The Democratic governor’s effort to boost the wages of the working poor is likely to face intense opposition in the legislature, where the Republican-led senate opposes raising the minimum wage and has resisted previous efforts to boost it more modestly.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-yor...ur-minimum-wage-with-biden-at-side-1441918076

 

[kpitcher]

“The truth is, it’s wrong to have an economy where the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, where the American dream of mobility and opportunity has become more of a cruel myth.”

I thought the American dream included either working hard to elevate yourself to a good job, getting a good education for a good job / trade, lucking out on being in the right place or right time, or being a good athlete.

 

[morfeeis]

As i always say when i see stuff like this, Bring it on, why stop at $15 raise it to $20 an hour. i mean everyone should be able to make 41k a year with no education at all. the faster they can screw up the economy the faster reason and logic can step back in after they crash this ship, put your money in real assets, vote for the party that promises the most "free" stuff and sit back and watch the shit show.

The only thing that is going to stop the virus of stupid that is running through this country is hunger pains.

 

[Jan2017]

I'm glad they are doing it there first so everybody can see what a disaster it is.

And the Ten dollar BigMac and Whopper soon follow . . . with a real beef burger up to $15.