Buffalo lowers restaurant workers' living wage at urging of William K's owner

In mid-December, during a radio interview, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared his opposition to New York's lower minimum wage for restaurant workers and said it exploits immigrants and women.

A month later, in his State of the State address, Cuomo followed up by ordering public hearings into the so-called "tip credit" and suggested again it was an issue of "fairness and decency."

But while Cuomo was doing that, lawmakers at Buffalo City Hall were taking a far different path.

At the urging of a waterfront restaurant owner, the Common Council voted to create a new, lower minimum wage for restaurant workers who were previously entitled to the city's much higher living wage.

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