Mayor Bill de Blasio made the announcement Wednesday. The raises will cover 50,000 workers, and apply to every city employee and every employee of contracted social services agencies when the plan is fully implemented, WCBS 880’s Rich Lamb reported.
“It means 50,000 employees, but brothers and sisters we know that means thousands and thousands and tens of thousands of family members are uplifted at the same time,” de Blasio said.
De Blasio, a Democrat, has said he wants to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour for everyone, but that the state must agree.
