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SUNY minimum wage increase will boost incomes of 524 New Paltz student workers

by Frances Marion Platt
May 5, 2017
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The SUNY New Paltz campus. (photo by Dion Ogust)
The SUNY New Paltz campus. (photo by Dion Ogust)

At a rally in New York City on January 4, governor Andrew Cuomo announced the first step of his 2016 agenda to make New York the first state in the nation to enact a $15 minimum wage for all workers: directing the State University of New York to raise the minimum wage for its employees. The SUNY Board of Trustees is expected to approve this increase in its minimum wage at its January board meeting.

Upon approval of the increase, more than 28,000 SUNY employees — including hourly paid staff, student workers and work/study participants alike — will see their wages increase to $9.75 an hour beginning in February of this year, and ultimately reach $15 an hour on December 31, 2018 in New York City and July 1, 2021 statewide. The increase is projected to cost approximately $28 million once fully implemented, and will be covered by SUNY.

Statistics released by the governor’s office and the SUNY system estimate that in the Hudson Valley region, 281,104 individuals in all industries are currently earning less than $15 an hour. According to the press release, the New York State Department of Labor projects that an increase to a $15 minimum wage will mean a boost of over $15.7 billion for the state economy.

Of those 28,000+ people employed for less than $15 per hour by the SUNY system, 2,188 work in the Hudson Valley. At SUNY New Paltz, 524 workers currently make less than $9.75 an hour.  “All are students,” said Melissa Kaczmarek, media relations manager at the college’s Office of Communication & Marketing.

“At this time, the College is looking into the impact of this on our campus and our budget,” Kaczmarek told the New Paltz Times on January 8. “The impact on the campus for this fiscal year is about $77,000. The annualized figure for this increase is $154,000.”

 

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Frances Marion Platt has been a feature writer (and copyeditor) for Ulster Publishing since 1994, under both her own name and the nom de plume Zhemyna Jurate. Her reporting beats include Gardiner and Rosendale, the arts and a bit of local history. In 2011 she took up Syd M’s mantle as film reviewer for Alm@nac Weekly, and she hopes to return to doing more of that as HV1 recovers from the shock of COVID-19. A Queens native, Platt moved to New Paltz in 1971 to earn a BA in English and minor in Linguistics at SUNY. Her first writing/editing gig was with the Ulster County Artist magazine. In the 1980s she was assistant editor of The Independent Film and Video Monthly for five years, attended Heartwood Owner/Builder School, designed and built a timberframe house in Gardiner. Her son Evan Pallor was born in 1995. Alternating with her journalism career, she spent many years doing development work – mainly grantwriting – for a variety of not-for-profit organizations, including six years at Scenic Hudson. She currently lives in Kingston.

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