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Posted on 04/01/2026 8:19:37 PM PDT by Libloather
Oakland workers are ready to be paid a lot more.
Worker advocates in Oakland are pressing for a $30 minimum wage, mirroring a similar goal from socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani from across the country.
A worker’s organization, One Fair Wage, is hoping to put forward a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage in the area. The organization believes the wage increase will help workers with the expensive cost of living in the Bay Area, especially with the affordability crisis.
The push comes as Oakland continues grappling with a deep structural budget shortfall and ongoing fiscal instability, with officials warning recurring expenses are outpacing revenue.
“Every time there has been a downturn or a serious challenge to the economy, in the end, we raise wages as a stimulus,” Saru Jayaraman, the president of One Fair Wage, told Center Square.
“It’s basically a stimulus in the hands of working people, who spend a much bigger percentage of their income than higher-income people because they have to. It’s survival,” she added.
One Fair Wage says the proposed ballot initiative would gradually institute the $30 minimum wage within the city and Alameda County until reaching the proposed amount in 2030. Oakland’s current minimum wage is $17.34 an hour, and California’s minimum wage sits at $16.90 an hour.
A $30 minimum wage would be the highest in the country. New York City legislators introduced a bill last month to also introduce a $30 minimum wage.
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Is it Oakland or Wokeland?
Exactly, why not $100 an hour…..
Don't try to explain their cognitive dissonance to them however.
Worker - Marx
Employee - capitalist
Talk about a food desert. This will be a record when every fast food and grocery shut down and move out.
We’ve got some friends with an autistic son who needs lots of physical work to do. If he’s not doing anything, he rages out. It’s just part of his disability.
He’s coming over next week to help me with a hole I need dug and getting some leaves raked up. I won’t pay him by the hour because he might see a ladybug and chase it around, but I will pay him fairly.
Why not $100 an hour? Just make sure that Oakland workers make much more than those who are paying their salaries because apparently, that outcome is the only one that will teach these commies the lesson.
Demand $40+ an hour get 0 as place is shut down, workers paradise 😂😎
A while back in Ohio bakers Union demanded wage and benefits increases and went on strike, plant shut down
Union officials still kept their 300k+ jobs
Given how these people think, why not $200 an hour? A million?
Why not just pass a law that everyone gets everything they want, right now?
Toddlers have a better grasp of the world.
The new unemployed will move into tents in San Francisco where the benefits are better
You can't convince idiots of this. They think they will still pay $10 for a burger, until it's $30.
There is no cure for inequality.
An increase in the minimum wage merely makes everything cost more and the result is the same except the costs are all higher
“Every time there has been a downturn or a serious challenge to the economy, in the end, we raise wages as a stimulus”...
Yes, for 5 minutes...like a drug it feels good for a moment, then you come down and the withdrawal sets in. Once business realize the actual impact they raise prices and everyone in those lower pay brackets are right back in the same situation.
It’s fools gold. All you accomplish is making life harder and harder for everyone because everything costs more and not everyone is getting a raise.
And their solution, every time, is to raise the minimum wage AGAIN. Rinse repeat.
Of course, with higher wages the State will collect more in taxes...it’s just another backdoor tax increase. California is going to crash itself...already happening.
Before long, no one except city and state government employees will be able to afford to live in California. Even the billionaires will have left.
Raising the minimum wage will that high help those minimum wage workers who still have jobs after the new wage law is passed and will, indeed, make life more affordable for them. Those who still have jobs might just not have them for long as businesses close or move out of the area. The higher prices that will result will also help negate the benefits for those whose wages have been raised.
I won’t live in any HOA blighted neighborhood. If my neighbor has a car up on blocks beside his house, well, that’s his property. It is none of my business.
They should just make it $100/hour so everyone can buy a nice house.
“If my neighbor has a car up on blocks beside his house, well, that’s his property. It is none of my business.”
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To be sure HOA’s are not without problems and hassles, but communities with absolutely no-standards can soon become a free-for-all with cars parked on lawns, chicken wire fences, homes with half-built projects, trash cans left out for days, and other blights that destroy property values.
Indeed the art of socialism in play.
I hear you, man ... as a kid, I picked raspberries for 10 cents a quart and thought I was rich as Croesus come County Fair time.
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