Working Families Determined to
Press for Yonkers Living Wage Law
Press for Yonkers Living Wage Law
Expressing “disappointment” at Mayor Phil Amicone’s veto of the Living Wage Law passed by the Yonkers City Council, Patrick Welsh, chairman of Westchester-Putnam Working Families, announced today his party’s determination to continue to press for a law on behalf of low-wage workers.
“We take literally the Mayor’s statement that 'the notion of a locally mandated living wage is certainly a creditable concept,’” Welsh said, “and we look forward to working with him and the City Council toward that end. We are driven by the belief that it is immoral to use city funds – taxpayer dollars – to pay workers wages that keep them in poverty. Moreover, we know from the experience of more than 140 other localities that living wage laws are good for the economy.”
Welsh specifically disputed Amicone’s contention that a living wage law would make it almost impossible to settle fair labor agreements with the city’s municipal unions. “Our brothers and sisters in the uniformed services and other unions deserve a raise, but so do people making $6.00 and $7.00 an hour,” Welsh stated. “Nobody can live on those salaries.”
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