March 16, 2016
CORNING, NY – State Senator Tom O’Mara (R, Big Flats), Assemblyman Phil Palmesano (R, and Assemblyman Chris Friend (R, Big Flats) will meet with local New York Farm Bureau representatives for a news conference followed by a round table discussion on Friday, March 18th in Corning, at 11am. That will be at the Three Rivers Development at 19 East Market Street, Second Floor Conference Room) in Corning.
In a joint statement, O’Mara, Palmesano and Friend said, “The supporters of raising the state’s minimum wage by nearly 70 percent to $15 an hour have been out in full force all across New York State, and all over the airwaves. But the voices of New York’s hard-working farm families deserve to be heard also. It’s the other side of the story on this minimum wage debate, which is potentially a story about disappearing farms and farmland, job losses and other economic impacts across so many rural communities and Main Street New York. Our farmers and agricultural industry deserve to have a voice in this debate too.”
