After three years of labor campaigns, fast food workers finally had their voices heard when their minimum wages were raised to $15 per hour by 2021 in New York State, USA. Though only 30 or more fast food chains would be impacted by the salary increase, it is still a giant leap for the workers. From $8 it would annually increase to $15 overtime as per the Entrepreneur.
Though the wage board's proposal still needs final approval from the state government before taking effect, it is something doable as per Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York's current governor as he continues to support the efforts to raise minimum wage.
Though this salary increase is making a giant leap for fast food workers, child care workers and the like are heart broken by the announcement stating that they too need to have a fair share on the increase as it was stated in NPR, they do manual labor as well, by taking care of children, feeding them, making sure that they are safe. They make sure that everything is neat and children are well-nourished in terms of education, providing a curriculum in math and reading that prepares these children for the big school.
Though minimum wage on fast food employees is already on its way in making their lives better, will child care workers have the same light as well? Will they be able to have a raise for the years to come?
Miss Deborah Philips- a professor at Georgetown University did leave an impacting statement for the child care workers stating:
"Policymakers and the business community are all now turning to early childhood education as one of the best investments we can make," she then added "Policymakers and the business community are all now turning to early childhood education as one of the best investments we can make," says Phillips. "But if you don't pay adequate wages, you undermine the very thing that produces that value."
