New York state fast food workers will be paid $15 an hour by 2021

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Source: The Guardian

New York state fast food workers will be paid $15 an hour by 2021

Jana Kasperkevic in New York
Wednesday 22 July 2015 20.17 BST

After more than a year of organized action, fast food workers in New York are about to get what they have been demanding: a $15 minimum wage.

The Fast Food Wage Board appointed by New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday that they are recommending a new $15 an hour minimum wage for fast food workers employed by chains with 30 or more stores nationwide.

Those working in New York City will see their wages increase to $15 an hour by December 2018, whereas those working in the rest of the state will see their wages increase at a slower pace and will reach $15 by July 2021.

New York will lead the way in fighting economic inequality, Cuomo said after the wage board announced its recommendations. “It is an injustice when you have a growing income inequality, (when) fewer and fewer Americans are becoming richer and richer and more Americans working harder and harder and getting left behind,” he said. “It is an injustice when working families in this country have gone backwards over the past 10 years when you add in inflation. It is a shame that in this nation with all our progress, one in five children live poverty. That is a shame.”

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/22/new-york-fast-food-workers-15-an-hour

[daleanime]

1. A little slower then we might like.....

but it's a start.

[niyad]

2. snail's pace.

[shenmue]

3. Wish it wouldn't take so long

but it's moving in the right direction.