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When the New York State Wage Board announced that the minimum wage in New York City would be raised to $15 an hour by December 31, 2018, Patrick McGeehan argued in The New York Times that it was a direct consequence of the Fight for $15 protests, and that "the labor protest movement that fast-food workers in New York City began nearly three ...
Per the terms of the proposed legislation, if the New York State Department of Health declared a public health emergency as a result of the strike, the state government would be able to mandate the State Board of Mediation to make a final mediation effort between the two sides and, if no agreement were reached within 48 hours, to invoke ...
The state of New York took over when federal regulation ended in 1950. Under the first permanent state laws in 1951, New York took a similar regulatory approach to the federal government. At the time there were about 2,500,000 rental units statewide, 85% of them in New York City.
Basil Paterson was later a New York state senator for Harlem, secretary of state under Hugh Carey, and deputy mayor of New York City for Ed Koch. [6] According to a New York Now interview, Paterson traces his roots on his mother's side of the family to pre– Civil War African American slaves in the states of North Carolina and South Carolina ...
Also in 1937, New York passed a minimum wage law protecting women and minors. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 set a national minimum wage standard and a forty hour work week, and in this same year, an amendment to the New York State Constitution established a "Bill of Rights" for working people. The Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board ...
Gonzalez advocated to raise the state's minimum wage to $15/hour, which passed and raised the wage by $1/year until it was fully implemented across the state in 2022. [31] She introduced AB 5 , which passed in September 2019 and would require many workers to be reclassified as employees instead of independent contractors, giving them minimum ...
Members of the Seneca Nation blocked the Southern Tier Expressway in New York to protest the state's attempt to extend a state sales tax to them in 1992. When members of the Iroquois Confederacy blocked roads in a similar conflict in 1997, law enforcement responded with brutal violence (the state would eventually pay out $2.7 million to victims).
This Pigovian tax, intended to cut down on traffic congestion and pollution, was first proposed in 2007 and included in the 2019 New York State government budget by the New York State Legislature. Tolls are collected electronically and vary depending on the time of day, type of vehicle, and whether a vehicle has an E-ZPass toll transponder.