Posted on 04/08/2026 3:49:46 AM PDT by Libloather
Advocacy groups in California are pushing for a $30 minimum wage in Oakland despite research suggesting the policy showed "negative outcomes" across the Golden State.
It was reported on March 30 that One Fair Wage is launching a ballot initiative in Alameda County and the city of Oakland as local officials consider an increase in their minimum wage to $30 an hour. The initiative — which would appear on the Nov. 3 ballot this year — plans to increase the minimum wage in both the city and county.
One Fair Wage is part of a coalition of community organizations that spoke at a news conference in Oakland on Mar. 19 launching a campaign to raise the minimum hourly wage to $30 for companies in Oakland and Alameda County.
"Working people today face an affordability crisis that's completely out of control, all while billionaires and massive corporations have been raking in record profits," said Mike Miller, director of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Region 6, which represents the western region of the country.
Large businesses with over 100 employees that make $1 billion annually would have until 2030 to raise the minimum wage to $30 an hour.
Smaller businesses are given more time. Businesses employing between 25 and 100 employees would have until 2035 to increase the minimum wage to $30. Businesses with fewer than 25 employees would have until 2037 to phase in the minimum wage increase to $30.
"Every time there has been a downturn or a serious challenge to the economy, in the end, we raise wages as a stimulus," said Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage at 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.
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It's not really about wages. The issue is never the issue.
The definite logical reason why "only" $30 is they think they can get it.
And they may be right.
Going back to the wheelbarrows of cash for a loaf of bread days in Kalifornia....
California why not get sane and put the minimum wage at $10/hour and maybe the youth will get a job instead of getting into trouble...er, never mind... it's California and sane left the state...😀
Why so stingy? Hell, make it $100 an hour. That will make everybody rich.
Right?
Why not make it 50?
OK, it’s time for someone to state the obvious: $0 is the actual minimum wage. Plus, how many businesses will decide to close if this happens? We saw what happened with the billionaire tax.
‘negative outcomes’superior thinkers stuned.
Didn’t they make it to twenty an hour recently? And they still don’t understand why the cost of living keeps going up. They can’t be that stupid, however, which indicates to me they are crashing the system on purpose.
So when my SIL and BIL wanted to do some rennovations to the kitchen, living room and front yard of their Los Gatos home, they had to turn a now spare bedroom into an ADU with its own separate door and address, etc. Crazy. It was their son’s room as a kid-—we sleep there when visiting...Luckily they don’t charge us Los Gatos Hotel Rates :)
“......would have until 2030 to raise the minimum wage to $30 an hour.”
If it’s SO GREAT why do they always do it over years instead of immediately?
There was some work done a few years where they figured out that when the
minimum wage gets high enough- it brings older white folks back into the
workplace.
Unintended consequences
Oh my a Big Mac will cost 10, 20 maybe 30 dollars! /sarc
When did you retire? Did they give you a pension?
I’d rather they be paid wages instead of welfare. This could work.
No one knows what ADU means.
Freepthink: if min wage is 30 the Big Macs will cost 30.
How has that $20 minimum wage worked out for fast food workers? Did it lift them into the the middle class as the economically illiterate Governor promised?
California’s $20 Fast-Food Wage Hike Delivers the Opposite of What Was Promised
"University of California, Santa Cruz researchers documented a range of negative outcomes from the state’s $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers, including higher menu prices, reduced employee hours, elimination of overtime, and loss of benefits.
Automation has accelerated as franchise owners replace human labor with kiosks, mobile apps, and AI drive-thru systems to control costs.
Independent studies estimate between 10,700 and 18,000 fast-food jobs lost in the year following the April 2024 wage increase.
Similar wage mandates in Los Angeles have already prompted hotels and airports to cut approximately 650 positions."
https://economiccollapse.report/californias-20-fast-food-wage-hike-delivers-the-opposite-of-what-was-promised/
The price gouging post covid has its consequences. This is one.
really? Additional Dwelling Unit, fancy political term city hall uses for Mother-in-Laws room, or shed...
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