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Comms
Jun 5, 20241 min read
One Fair Wage A Fork In The Road
2024 will be an important election year for the country and for New York State. However, numerous electoral analyses have raised alarms...
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Comms
Mar 18, 20241 min read
ALWAYS ESSENTIAL, STILL WAITING FOR CHANGE - New York
A legacy of slavery and a source of race and gender inequity, poverty, and harassment, the subminimum wage for tipped workers has been a...
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Comms
Aug 1, 20231 min read
END THE SUBMINIMUM WAGE FOR TIPPED WORKERS in New York. Support bill A10710/S5567.
New York restaurant workers and owners are struggling. Ending the subminimum wage for tipped workers will provide a level playing field...
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Comms
Apr 7, 20231 min read
Small Business Restaurants Succeed With One Fair Wage: A California & New York Comparative Analysis
Small business restaurants in New York are struggling to find staff in what is currently the worst staffing crisis in the industry’s...
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Comms
Mar 30, 20231 min read
Stop Leaving Us Out: 73 Years of New York State Minimum Wage Increases Excluding Women – Especially Women of Color.
The movement to increase the New York State minimum wage has made great gains for some workers. However, tipped restaurant workers, who...
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Comms
Oct 27, 20221 min read
THE KEY TO SAVING THE NEW YORK STATE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY POST-COVID 19
The subminimum wage for tipped workers is 66 percent of the overall minimum wage and ranges from $8.35-10.40 an hour in the state of New...
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Comms
May 25, 20221 min read
Dine Back Better
AS THEY EMERGE FROM THE PANDEMIC, hundreds of restaurants across New York are responding to the Great Resignation by raising wages,...
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Comms
May 16, 20221 min read
Raising Wages to Reopen
New York State Restaurants Raising Wages to Save Their Businesses After COVID-19 The New York State restaurant industry has been ravaged...
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Comms
May 12, 20221 min read
Are You Being Served?
How Applebee’s NYC Establishments Are Responding to the Great Resignation With Racial Inequity One Fair Wage UC Berkeley Food Labor...
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Comms
Feb 8, 20221 min read
We Need Relief AND Raises
The restaurant industry has been one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors of the United States economy for decades. Restaurant...
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Comms
Feb 7, 20221 min read
One Fair Wage: The Key To Saving The New York State Restaurant Industry Post-COVID 19
The subminimum wage for tipped workers is 66 percent of the overall minimum wage and ranges from $8.35-$10.40 an hour in the state of New...
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Comms
Feb 6, 20221 min read
The Key to Saving the New York State Restaurant Industry Post-Covid 19
The subminimum wage for tipped workers is 66 percent of the overall minimum wage and ranges from $8.35-$10.40 an hour in the state of New...
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Comms
Feb 6, 20221 min read
NY Still Needs One Fair Wage
The lack of One Fair Wage (OFW) means hundreds of thousands of restaurant workers in New York are now receiving unemployment insurance...
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Comms
Dec 7, 20211 min read
New York Consumers Can Expect Significant Disruptions When Dining Out this Holiday Season
Workers Protest Low-Wages Threaten Holiday Walk-Outs; Ending Subminimum Wage Only Way To Save Holiday Dining and Entire Industry The...
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Comms
May 5, 20211 min read
New York: It’s a Wage Shortage, Not a Worker Shortage
Why New York Restaurant Workers Are Leaving the Industry, And What Would Make Them Stay The COVID-19 outbreak has had devastating impacts...
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Comms
Mar 6, 20211 min read
New York Brief on The Tipped Minimum Wage as a Gender Equity Issue
There are 350,840 tipped workers in New York state. Over half of New York tipped workers are women, 35 percent of whom are mothers....
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Comms
Feb 6, 20211 min read
Doing More For Less
New York Restaurant Workers’ Experiences of Tips, Surcharges, Racial Inequity, and Why They’re Leaving the Industry During Covid-19 In...
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Comms
Dec 6, 20201 min read
Upstate NY Service Workers Experience Of Health & Harassment During COVID
Upstate NY Service Workers Experience Of Health & Harassment During COVID COVID-19’s devastation of the service sector has been well...
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Comms
Oct 5, 20201 min read
The Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers as Public Health Crisis
How the Subminimum Wage Disincentivizes COVID-19 Safety Enforcement in NY Restaurants Thanks to strong state and local leadership, New...
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Comms
Jul 5, 20201 min read
A Persistent Legacy Of Slavery
Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers in New York as a Racial Equity Measure In 2020, both the COVID-19 pandemic and the...
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