It’s another big victory for the Fight For $15 — a movement that started with a few courageous workers in Downtown Brooklyn less than four years ago and this week won billions for workers in California and in New York.
It’s a victory for Governor Andrew Cuomo, who demonstrated bipartisan leadership by working with lawmakers from both parties to win a $15 wage for millions of New York workers.
But the biggest victory is for workers and their families, who will finally get paychecks that will lift them out of poverty and a measure of the respect they have earned.
We’ll now work with allies and activists to fight for economic fairness for Upstate workers whose raises have been temporarily delayed by a small number of GOP Senators standing in the way of progress.
And we’ll work for fair-share tax reform to make sure New York can keep investing in the schools, jobs, housing, healthcare and antipoverty initiatives that together with today’s wage hike will lead towards broader prosperity and a stronger economy for all New Yorkers.