Fight for 15

by | Dec 2, 2015 | News

Fight-for-15The Service Employees are finally bringing their internal drama into the Fight for $15 movement. As California’s SEIU State Council leads a proposed ballot initiative to increase the minimum wage, SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West is doing the same thing. Both groups propose minimum wage increases, but vary on mandates for sick leave. All endeavors combined, the Service Employees have spent an estimated $80 million on the movement over the last three years. The mayor of Syracuse raised the wage for city employees to $15 an hour last month; a Beacon Hill committee voted in favor of a $15 minimum wage in Boston by 2018; and, as we all know, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is trying to bring the minimum wage in NYC to $15 by 2018 and statewide by 2021. The problem with this is that, in New York alone, a $15 minimum wage could lead to job losses as large as 588,000. This, according to recent reports by The Empire Center and American Action Forum. From the other side of the table, the Ohio Department of Commerce announced earlier this month that the state’s minimum wage will remain the same through 2016. Ohio has a constitutional amendment that calls for a yearly increase due to rate of inflation, but since the federal Consumer Price Index showed a decline, the state is permitted to keep the minimum wage unchanged.

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