Chambers target 'living wage' bill

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110316/SMALLBIZ/110319907#

March 16, 2011 1:43 PM
Chambers target 'living wage' bill

City's 5 Boro Chamber Alliance to fight Council bill that would require tenants of city-subsidized developments to pay workers more than minimum wage.

By Daniel Massey

The business coalition that killed paid sick-days legislation last year has now set its sights on defeating a proposal that would require jobs resulting from city-subsidized projects to pay at least $10 an hour, plus benefits.

The 5 Boro Chamber Alliance, which formed in 2009 to fight the sick days measure, is meeting next week to orchestrate opposition to the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, which would require employers at projects that received $100,000 or more in subsidies to pay a living wage.

Plans are in the works to request meetings with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has yet to take a position on the measure, and the bill's sponsors to outline small business' stance. The group convinced Ms. Quinn last year that the sick days bill would have devastated small businesses.

“We just had paid sick days, now it's living wage,” said Nancy Ploeger, president of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, which is a member of the alliance. “They just keep trying to put burdens on the backs of small business.”

The planned opposition comes even as a revised version of the bill, obtained by Crain's, carves out small businesses with revenues less than $1 million per year, as proponents had earlier promised: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110112/FREE/110119940

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[HillbillyBob]

1. In short the Coalition against fair pay.

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[Scuba]

2. Close. Actually "The Coalition for Slave Labor" n/t