The nation’s largest health-care union🌸 spent $19 million last year in its campaign to raise the minimum wa🧜ge, .
The Service Employees Inter🉐national Union effort succeeded, at le🌊ast in New York.
Gov. Cuomo signed a law last year to gradually raise the minimum to $15 throughout thꦇe st♎ate.
Of the total spent, $14𒈔.7 million went to the Workers Organizing Committees, $1.75 million was paid to BerlinRosen Public Affairs and $250,000 went to the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice.
SEIU has sp🌱ent at least $90 million on the “Fight for $15” campaign since 2012, .
“Thanks to the fearlessness and courage of working people🌌 nationwide . . . New York state, as well as California, Seattle, and Washington, DC, are on a path to $15 anℱ hour,” a union spokesperson said.
But CUF said the 𒆙spending is a mixed bag, because SEIU has had limited success 𒁃recruiting restaurant workers as union members.
“While the SEIU has scored some legislative victories, the union continues to bleed money with no major restaurant organizing win to show for it,” CUF president Rick Berm꧋an said.