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TexasTowelie

(116,960 posts)
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 05:05 AM Feb 2018

Buffalo lowers restaurant workers' living wage at urging of William K's owner

In mid-December, during a radio interview, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared his opposition to New York's lower minimum wage for restaurant workers and said it exploits immigrants and women.

A month later, in his State of the State address, Cuomo followed up by ordering public hearings into the so-called "tip credit" and suggested again it was an issue of "fairness and decency."

But while Cuomo was doing that, lawmakers at Buffalo City Hall were taking a far different path.

At the urging of a waterfront restaurant owner, the Common Council voted to create a new, lower minimum wage for restaurant workers who were previously entitled to the city's much higher living wage.

Read more: http://buffalonews.com/2018/02/04/buffalo-lowers-restaurant-workers-living-wage-at-urging-of-eatery/

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Buffalo lowers restaurant workers' living wage at urging of William K's owner (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2018 OP
TrumpAmerikkka....... SergeStorms Feb 2018 #1
I must admit that I didn't expect this thread to receive much interest, TexasTowelie Feb 2018 #3
Coming soon: The world as portrayed in RoboCop. dchill Feb 2018 #2

SergeStorms

(19,312 posts)
1. TrumpAmerikkka.......
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 07:36 AM
Feb 2018

"more for me and to hell with everyone else". I travel to Buffalo several times each year. I've been to William K's restaurant on the waterfront. Never again. Rotten bastards.

TexasTowelie

(116,960 posts)
3. I must admit that I didn't expect this thread to receive much interest,
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 02:29 PM
Feb 2018

but apparently the world is smaller place than what I thought. William K's deserves the bad publicity and loss of business from this policy.

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