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New York is going up to $15 an hour I believe. Other states are rising too.
Hope the federal government gets with the program.
New York City will be at 15$ by 2020. The rest of the state will only be up to 12.50$
They're staggering the wage increases by .70 per year to avoid wage shock on companies.
But even still the crappy bottom feeder companies like the one i work for is having issues as even their foreman, seconds, long timers. Their wages were only a dollar or two above the original minimum wage of a few years ago. which is causing wage compression and angst within the company.
Companies don't want to pay. There's even talk of moving the entire company down to Tennessee where they have a smaller facility they bought a few years back.
The only thing holding them back is that they're having issues running just that little outfit that doesn't even do a fifth of what the plant up in NY does.