Last September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 1287 into law, which includes a $20 per hour minimum wage for fast-food workers and a fast-food regulatory council which has the authority to raise the industry’s minimum wage annually. But between last fall and January, California fast-food restaurants cut about 9,500 jobs, representing a 1.3 percent change from September 2023.
Helps if you had read the articles where the woman says she was happy with her job and pay. She’s not upset because she doesn’t have a job or pay. She won’t be able to pay her bills. I get you feel self important to tell the plebes they don’t need jobs since but I can empathize with their plight.
I missed that one. Did you post a link to it? I don’t see any other links in this thread. I admire your concern for the people who lost their jobs and I share that concern. You should never doubt that the plight of the proletariat is a fundamental concern at the heart of the revolutionary’s critique of capitalist exploitation.
https://www.franchiseherald.com/articles/77514/20240415/fosters-freeze-closes-locations-statewide-citing-new-wage-laws-contributing.htm
Here is another article on it
The issue is that wages should have been increased more gradually over time and not rapidly when inflation was the highest and right after a pandemic. That is just dumb. People will only pay so much for fast food and that price is already exceeded.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/mcdonalds-25-deal-viral-users-blame-californias-minimum-wage-increase-new-normal
Yet the left claims they want to be more like Denmark but then balk when they find out Denmark doesn’t have a minimum wage.
I see. So Navarro the assistant general manager, who was probably getting an above minimum wage, was cooperating in the exploitation of whoever was working for $4 an hour. No one can support themselves on $4 an hour in California, so it was likely teenagers or students who probably won’t be cast into the street or go hungry at the loss of such a low wage job.
I agree wages should have been raised gradually over time. There was very strong and well organized opposition to such an idea, mainly among republicans but also democrat collaborators.
Another difference between the USA and Denmark: trade unions. Unfortunately for US workers, there has been a long history of union busting in America. Coupled with deliberately weak labor laws, union busting goes on.
To act like a wage increase is some kind of curse against fast food employees is to ignore the long history of anti-worker legislation and practices in this country, which is again, either foolish or deceitful.
Where did you get 4 dollars ? They were making at least 16
Thats where I got the $4 from. It wasn’t clear me it was a 4 dollar raise. I admit I may have had a poor reading comprehension moment there, but in my defence I have a concussion and my eyes are a bit blurry, also I am trying to avoid my wife catching me on the internet, since she thinks I should be resting in a dark room. Still, that’s a poorly written sentence.
They were at 16 and went to 20.
Hey I get the blurry eyes. I wake up with dry eyes. Sometimes I end up writing gibberish because of it. It looks fine to to me until I review it later.
The issue is the speed of the raises and inflation. Customers won’t absorb higher prices.