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California Fast Food Wages Would Be Set by Government Under Bill Passed by State Legislature
WSJ ^ | Aug. 29, 2022 | By Heather Haddon and Christine Mai-Duc

Posted on 08/29/2022 10:53:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin

California’s Legislature passed a bill Monday to create a government panel that would set wages for an estimated half-million fast food workers in the state, a first-in-the-U.S. approach to workplace regulation that labor union backers hope will spread nationally.

The bill, known as the Fast Act, would establish a panel with members appointed by the governor and legislative leaders composed of workers, union representatives, employers and business advocates. They would set hourly wages of up to $22 for fast food workers starting next year and can increase them annually by the same rate as the consumer-price index, up to a maximum of 3.5%.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: california; communist; communistic; labor; prevailingwage; prevailingwagegrift; uniongrifters; wages
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Apologies for the pay wall. Hopefully the excerpt covers the salient points.
1 posted on 08/29/2022 10:53:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Unions are *why* a burger flipper in Cali can make $22.00/hr. Of course, your burger probably costs no less than $15.00


2 posted on 08/29/2022 10:56:16 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: OrangeHoof

Oops. Silly me. I meant vegi-burger since they will have outlawed meet too.


3 posted on 08/29/2022 10:57:24 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: BenLurkin

Here’s the article without the pay wall

https://archive.ph/fEyiW


4 posted on 08/29/2022 10:58:13 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: BenLurkin

“They would set hourly wages of up to $22 for fast food workers starting next year”

Not good enough. They cant survive in california on that. Make it 500 dollars an hour.


5 posted on 08/29/2022 11:00:23 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: OrangeHoof

There goes the fast food joints..Either leave or go bankrupt...


6 posted on 08/29/2022 11:02:48 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: BenLurkin

No more TacoBell, KFC, or McDonalds in California!!!!!


7 posted on 08/29/2022 11:03:53 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: BenLurkin

They also going to mandate sufficient customers are to buy enough expensive products so the Jack’s, etc can stay in business?


8 posted on 08/29/2022 11:06:09 PM PDT by citizen (Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public prop. in riches and luxury)
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To: OrangeHoof

these clowns are going to make more then I did as a fleet mechanic in 2018 real quick. (23 an hour)
and I had to pay for trade school(2 years)


9 posted on 08/29/2022 11:08:31 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (Buy JHP ammo, Level 3/4 armor and rifles. Won’t be able to for much longer, and we’re gonna need em)
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To: BenLurkin

And Atlas Shrugged.


10 posted on 08/29/2022 11:09:10 PM PDT by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: BenLurkin

It was just yesterday they were all clamoring for $15/hr. That didn’t last long.


11 posted on 08/29/2022 11:13:48 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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Sounds semi-fascist, to me.


12 posted on 08/29/2022 11:17:11 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: BenLurkin

Why don’t they declare us all serfs, property of the government.


13 posted on 08/29/2022 11:19:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

How very Bolshevik of them.


14 posted on 08/29/2022 11:20:26 PM PDT by quikstrike98
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To: OrangeHoof

or worm burger

cuz when they outlaw fertilizer even veggies will be scarce

so why just fast food?

why not all businesses?

why just wages?

why not hiring and promotions?

maybe the owner should just go home while the govt runs their business into the ground


15 posted on 08/29/2022 11:23:04 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: BenLurkin

It will be easy to make $22/hr, because you’ll be the only person there.


16 posted on 08/29/2022 11:28:30 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want tod watch the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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that was harsh of me

the owner should stick around to mop the floors

who wants to pay 22/hr for someone to mop floors?


17 posted on 08/29/2022 11:29:55 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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“so why just fast food?

why not all businesses?

why just wages?

why not hiring and promotions?”

Fast food is the camel’s nose under the tent.
They may get away with it then in a few years declare it a roaring success and start adding industries and jobs to the pile.

And they think businesses are fleeing California now?
They ain’t seen nothing yet.


18 posted on 08/29/2022 11:47:28 PM PDT by oldvirginian (There ain't no Coupe DeVille hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box )
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To: OrangeHoof

Oops. Silly me. I meant vegi-burger since they will have outlawed meet too.

Shh, don't give them ideas.

19 posted on 08/29/2022 11:48:45 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: OrangeHoof

You will see an immediate reaction by the public....if your burger-menu is $17 for just one single person, then business will take a hit. Just another reason to leave the state.

Course, it’ll speed up the process of automation, with 80-percent of the burger-flipper jobs gone by 2030 (my prediction).


20 posted on 08/29/2022 11:54:46 PM PDT by pepsionice
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