Workers contracted by the city for nonprofit work say their wages make it difficult to adequately staff operations.
Nonprofit workers gather outside City Hall to rally for cost-of-living wage increases.Nneka Millette, 44, helps run a drop-in center for homeless youth in Brownsville, Brooklyn. But in the last few months, she said she’s found it impossible to keep the center staffed.
Millete was among hundreds of nonprofit workers who staff the city’s shelters, community centers and after-school programs who rallied outside City Hall Thursday afternoon, calling on the city to boost base pay for nonprofit workers to $21 an hour and to earmark cost-of-living wage increases into this year’s budget.
She, along with several other colleagues in the City Council pledged to push for more funding for nonprofit human services contracts in the budget, which must be hammered out by the end of June. While city workers’ have cost-of-living adjustments baked into their contracts, nonprofit workers subcontracted by the city do not. As a result, many workers who staff the city’s food pantries, senior centers and mental health clinics are living on the brink of poverty themselves. A tight labor market across the country has made filling these low-wage positions even more difficult, managers said.
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