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%.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
They’ll just automate until there are no humans in the stores. Already possible, but not cost-effective......yet.
The communist state of California is going to set the wages for fast food, of course when athose fast food workers no longer have a job because fast food operators cannot raise prices high enough to pay for it without customers(former customers) no longer able to afford it.
The natural result of insane wage increase are normally that food prices are raised as high as is practical and still maintain customer traffic and then cut the labor force to keep payroll down. trust me I had many years of experience.
As I said...normally, but that was in the old days, what this insanity by the communists will do is accelerate the push to automation/robotics and sayonara to humans on the payroll except for the few to keep the raw product flowing to the machines and clean the dining rooms(yeah as if they do that now).
Only someone insane, politicians, and others with not one iota of business experience would think that unskilled fast food laborers should be paid money that is higher than an apprentice in a skilled trade.
Just wait when the few that are still employed at the $22 wage get their first paycheck and see how much the government, the only winner, takes and they will be sorry and angry but still vote communist.
No worries. There will be no food by years end anyways.
They will just do it, without telling us. If they told us that, the peasants might revolt.
Don’t Communist countries control businesses like this?
A famous dude, once told me, hungry people are angry people. 🤪😀🤭
Government control of business and labor is considered fascism. Any opposition is forbidden and the people are slaves of the state.
[No worries. There will be no food by years end anyways.]
Not to worry; Klaus Schwab, George Soros and the WEF sez there will be plenty of insects to eat...
This is not a good time for the restaurant businesses. Inflation is causing supplies—the ketchup, hamburger, veggies, fish, chicken—etc to go sky high. Hiking the cost of labor will drive the price of the food beyond the ability of customers to purchase it.
Government control of business and labor is considered fascism.
That’s the classic definition of fascism. But F Joe is saying Republicans are fascists. Maybe they have changed the meaning of the word like they did with the word “recession“.
Here’s the article without the pay wall
How do you find those?
I’d keep a cooler in the car with some peanut butter sandwiches and some cold Cokes. Maybe some pimento cheese.
Why only $22 bucks? Why not $122?
The other is how unions stand to rake in extra pay raises from various escalator clauses which will then magically find some of its way back into the pockets of the RATS who put this in place.
It’s OK.
They have a 5-Year Plan to work out the details.
I dunno. The article says that employers and business advocates would be involved in the process.
Could be the big fast food chains support this, as it will drive all the small, family-owned taco and hamburger stands out of business. If "fast food" also applies to coffee, this will also kill Starbuck's and Peet's competitors.
Ironic. The left always whines about the big chains, saying they support "authentic, independently owned" coffee shops and restaurants.
Yes one day soon, Russia will have to defend itself from being annexed by the Union of California Communist Republics UCCR!
Because of the massive over-supply of low skill immigrant labor in the USA, the only way to force business owners and executives to invest in automation and expert software is to make human labor un-affordable.
Oh, they’ll still be here, only staffed by robots.
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