Malliotakis blasts Cuomo’s minimum wage hike
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour for State University of New York (SUNY) workers sets a dangerous precedent, according to Republican Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis.
Malliotakis (R-C-Bay Ridge-Staten Island) charged that Cuomo’s move is stripping the state of democracy by eliminating the legislative process.
On Jan. 4, Cuomo announced that he had issued an executive order to raise the minimum wage for some 28,000 state university workers.