Posted on 03/26/2016 9:51:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
California lawmakers and union leaders have reached a tentative deal to raise the state minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next several years, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is expected to make the formal announcement as early as Monday.
According to the L.A. Times, the minimum wage will jump from $10 to $10.50 an hour in 2017 and will increase by $1 every year after that until reaching $15 an hour in 2022.
Business with fewer than 25 employees will have an extra year to comply.
"The governor and stakeholders have all been negotiating earnestly and in good faith for some time," state Sen. Mark Leno told the AP.
The arrangement staves off a potential political showdown in California; union leaders have threatened to take the issue directly to the ballot, and polls have shown public support for minimum wage initiatives.
One union-backed initiative has been working to get on the ballot, and another has already qualified, the L.A. Times reports; its backers are hoping the new agreement will allow them to withdraw the proposal.
Raising the minimum wage has been a talking point of Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, who will face off in the California primary on June 7.
Sanders has called for raising the federal minimum wage - currently at $7.25 an hour - to $15. Clinton has supported raising the federal minimum wage to $12.
Say good-by to the fast food industry.
Why not $100 per hour then everyone can be rich?
So...the illegals get $15 ?
No. They’ll undercut that. Like they do with current labor laws.
Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts
Tech Company Develops Robots to Replace $15 /Hr Workers – Can Produce 1 Burger Every 10 Seconds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3315561/posts
In small town America, the factories have left and all there is for employment are fast foods and mini-marts.
LOL! Yeah, I’m sure Los Angelenos are going to drive to Nevada for a hamburger to save the extra 15 cents the wage hike will make their burger cost.
In theory, I’m all for no minimum wage. But with the modern welfare state, the real minimum wage is about $30,000... or $60,000 for unwed mothers. Whenever anyone gets paid less than that by business owners, we taxpayers have to make up the rest.
And don’t give me no crappy sob story about black people getting hurt by this... the illegal aliens took their jobs years ago. Now, the fast-food restaurants might as well hire someone who can speak English.
Yet the ‘benefactors’ of this don’t realize what is happening to them.
I used to tell the clerk when they say - swipe your own card - that they should realize that in due time the swipe your own card will replace YOU, the clerk.
Obligatory dumb look and eye roll is then noted.
I have had grocery store clerks ‘complain’ about 3 or 4 people in their line while the auto check out is empty.
I told her that if the auto checks stay full, chances are she will get sent home..so rather than ‘complain’ about me being there, she should individually thank anyone in her line.
Oh yes, dumb look and eye roll followed.
Sheetz Service Stations has had auto clerks for a long time, with maybe one or two people making the sandwiches BUT the customer doesn’t talk to them (well they won’t answer) the touch screen even has light mayo or such on it so no excuse to talk to the clerk -
Which also ‘allows’ them to hire people regardless of what language they communicate in.....
15 dollars in 2022. That is very long from now. I doubt many make under 15 dollars today anyway. I am glad they are keeping it a state issue.
Great! We don’t have to pay the robots $60,000/year in benefits like free schooling, free obamacare, free lawyers, free childcare, free foodstamps. McDonald’s can buy those robots instead of lobbying Congress to let another 33 million uneducated, non-English-speaking, unskilled laborers into the country.
More like say hello to your burger and fries cooked and served by automation
It give the government beast a huge increase in employer paid payroll taxes!!! Three will GE very little businesses left in CA. Our state is already on the brink!!!
Say goodby to all industry in California
Most wage clauses in Union Contracts are directly tied to the minimum wage and if this goes into effect a large number of California employers with union contracts will see the hourly wages of their hourly employees go up several dollars per hour across the board
So what happens to people already making $15/hr?
[So what happens to people already making $15/hr?]
Lose-lose situation.
Not!
The longest lines at a fast food burger joint are at the place that pays its employees the most. How does that happen?
[Say good-by to the fast food industry]
Should be corrected to ‘say good-by’ to the fast food industry food workers.
A very big reason.
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