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 fa...
Let these companies cripple themselves all because they don't want to pay fair wages. If they can't be bothered to ensure humans can live, they don't need to be in this world.
This is just bully tactics. Take the Loblaw strike/van and apply it to every one of these companies. Let corporations for once die and fail if they can't handle the realities of this world
The people were living just fine before. Now, they don't have a job in a state with high unemployment. Seems like the governor created a problem when things were working just fine.
These jobs were already lost before the $20 wage. If you live California, you would know this as they have been installing machines to order your own meals, while the counter was no longer there besides to pick-up food. So no this had been planned since before. They are just using an scapegoat to say this is why.
then what are you disputing? People do better employed than unemployed in a high unemployment state. California has the highest unemployment rate in the country.
@wintermute_oregon While that is true, I doubt that most people in #California are doing "just fine", the state has tons of problems from cost of living to safety.
That is outside of the minimum wage increase. That is just bad government. When I left California, there were things I missed, but it was declining rapidly when I left.
I am not a huge fan of minimum wages. Their history is racist and I think they hold the market back. If we didn't have a minimum wage, people could negotiate better.
@wintermute_oregon Eh. From what I remember, they were definitely needed at the time they were introduced, and I think getting rid of them will lead to the same problem today.
A better practice would be to keep the minimum wage static, and then stop contributing to inflation, although to be fair to #California, that problem is caused largely by the federal government, not the state itself.