The New York State AFL-CIO is launching a campaign “to change the public-policy debate in our state from one that is driven by corporations and billionaires to one that works for hardworking New Yorkers,” the group announced Dec. 3.
“For far too long, working men and women have been forced to play defense just to protect a basic standard of living in our state,” said its president, Mario Cilento. “They’ve had to defend wages, benefits, and conditions of employment. The result has been prolonged unemployment and underemployment, worsening income equality and shocking levels of poverty, which are scourges in our communities.
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