Unions are *why* a burger flipper in Cali can make $22.00/hr. Of course, your burger probably costs no less than $15.00
“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.
No more TacoBell, KFC, or McDonalds in California!!!!!
They also going to mandate sufficient customers are to buy enough expensive products so the Jack’s, etc can stay in business?
And Atlas Shrugged.
It was just yesterday they were all clamoring for $15/hr. That didn’t last long.
Sounds semi-fascist, to me.
Why don’t they declare us all serfs, property of the government.
It will be easy to make $22/hr, because you’ll be the only person there.
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?
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.
Don’t Communist countries control businesses like this?
Government control of business and labor is considered fascism. Any opposition is forbidden and the people are slaves of the state.
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.
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.
This is corporatism, and it is actual fascism, straight out of Mussolinis works.
Democrats, shooting themselves in the foot on inflation, just as I predicted.