(NYS) Assembly Passes Labor Legislation Raising State Minimum Wage

NYS Assembly ^ | March 1, 2004 | NYS Assembly

[bc2]

This bill has passed the Assembly. The bill number is A.9710 and the bill's sponsor is Susan John (D, Rochester). The bill was referred to the Senate Labor Committee on March 1st 2004. I do not yet know the Senate bill number.

These are the people we need to call and write to in order to see this bill, and the subsequent unemployment that the increased minimum wage will bring, defeated:

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Guy J. Velella Chair, Senate Labor Committee Senior Assistant Majority Leader, Liaison to the Executive Branch

501 State Capitol Building Albany, New York 12247 518-455-3264

2019 Williamsbridge Road Bronx, New York 10461 718-792-7180 velella@senate.state.ny.us

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Hon. Joseph L. Bruno Majority Leader, NYS Senate Room 909 LOB Albany, NY 12247 (518) 455-3191 e-mail: Bruno@senate.state.ny.us

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Hon. George E. Pataki, Governor Executive Chamber, NYS Capitol Albany, NY 12224 (518) 474-8390 e-mail: gov.pataki@chamber.state.ny.us

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As always, call your local State Senator and tell them that minimum wage laws only increase unemployment!

[bc2]

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[Qwinn]

Well, we now know what Thomas Sowell's next column will be about.

Qwinn

[bc2]

yup!

Thomas Sowell is my favorite economist / columnist!

[Qwinn]

Same here :)

Qwinn

[AmishDude]

Go NY! Make it $17.10 per hour! NJ and PA could use the jobs!

[concerned about politics]

Upstate NY will turn into a vast waste land with this legislation. If I owned a business, I'd shut down and retire, or pack up and leave.
I'd never even consider starting a business where I have to pay someone to bag groceries for $7.10 and hour !!! Might better just have the customer bag their own, or build in another state.

[kcvl]

If any of these people had to find a REAL job or spend their own money running a business and pay people's wages, instead of using taxpayer's money to hand out, they would go bankrupt and starve to death.

[Cacique]

This is wonderful, I wonder how many more illegals will come into the country and head this way now.

Illegals will be more than willing to work for the old minimum wage. In the meantime businesses that can barely afford the current minimum wage and remain legal will close it's doors prompting these left wing morons to raise it still again top close more businesses.

New York will achieve third world status long before the rest of the country does.

[gore_sux]

"A New York State, full-time, year-round worker in 2003 earned just $10,712 or only 72.3 percent of the annual income needed to keep a family of three out of poverty," said Farrell (D-Manhattan).

Here's the helpful hint for the day:

If you only make minimum wage you probably aren't ready to procreate.

[bc2]

Right now I'm drinking a beer to the idea of socialists in the NYS Legislature starving to death.

[irv]

Upstate NY will turn into a vast waste land with this legislation.

This is different from the current situation how? (I'm typing this from Rochester, where layoffs are as big a prt of life as rotten weather.)

[kcvl]

Do you mean that Hillary! hasn't fixed that yet? /sarcasm

[bc2]

Hi Irv, I'm also in Rochester... in the city proper.

I'd love to add you to the Upstate Ping List, may I?

Best regards from Rochester!

[kcvl]

Herman "Denny" Farrell, Jr

With record deficits, tax cuts for the rich, record job losses, obsessive secrecy, corporate favoritism, environmental erosion, and foreign policy mishaps, President Bush is clearly vulnerable to a forceful Democratic challenge in 2004. And New York Democrats will be at the vanguard of this historic contest.

[bc2]

That is the picture that belongs in the dictionary next to "Limo Liberal"

[kcvl]

I noticed that he got some government housing named after his mother. I can't say much after having the hillbillies from Arkansas as president/co-president.

[sergeantdave]

They should raise the minimum wage to $500 per hour. That way everyone in NY will be a millionaire within a year.

[irv]

I'd love to add you to the Upstate Ping List, may I?

By all means, please do.

[dr_who_2]

"Outsourcing".