Because New York makes it so hard for a business to do business. There's no way that any business in New York hasn't been in violation of the draconian wage regulations in that state - between union wage and benefits requirements that are enforceable by law, state prevailing wage regulations and laws that are different than the union wage requirements, and no real way to know which one must be followed. And, if you don't guess correctly, you get fined huge fines and debarred from doing business with the government. The only way to avoid that problem is either stop doing business in NY state all together (which is what I chose to do), or bribe al the people that could possibly give you problems, including the mob (which I chose not to do, and paid for it in the end). We paid union wages and benefits, and paid the company's union dues, and paid all the employee's union dues, because the NY DOL said that doing so would make sure we were in compliance... WRONG. Cost me tens of thousands of dollars and a plea agreement to "no contest" to a misdemeanor for the company.
Absolute bull****.
The advertising that the state of New York is doing to recruit businesses to New York State should be used as the prime evidence in a class action fraud case against the state by all the businesses that fall prey to their deceptive advertising, the crazy lies that the state DOL will tell them, and then having to kowtow to the union bosses with thousands of dollars.
That's what the hell it has to do with the OP - at least in my case.