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California could bump fast-food minimum
wage to $20.70

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 2/27/2025 7:14:15 PM

One year after California introduced a first-of-its-kind $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers, an increase of up to 70 cents is slated for a vote. California's Fast Food Council, comprised of fast-food workers, restaurant owners and state officials, approved a motion Wednesday to consider a cost-of-living-adjustment at an upcoming meeting. (Snip) Workers and labor advocates said the increase was needed to address rising costs of living in one of the country's most expensive states to live. Veronica Gonzales, a fast-food worker, spoke remotely from a room full of workers organized under the California Fast Food Workers Union’s San Jose chapter.

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Workers still complaining it's not enough. Why not demand $30/hour to flip burgers?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Bur Oak 2/27/2025 7:20:17 PM (No. 1905142)
Another machine employment act.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: earlybird 2/27/2025 7:21:28 PM (No. 1905143)
We now eat all of our burgers at home. Yum.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: earlybird 2/27/2025 7:23:42 PM (No. 1905146)
PS. It is very clear that these people don't understand the restaurant business. I do.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: mc squared 2/27/2025 7:34:07 PM (No. 1905151)
Life is full of choices. If you've chosen fast food as a career accept what you were offered.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Safari Man 2/27/2025 7:39:59 PM (No. 1905156)
A whopper meal in Mississippi is $12.20. It was $5 in 2020. I asked to see their wine list but they didn’t get my point.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: JimBob 2/27/2025 7:43:19 PM (No. 1905157)
A 70-Cent increase?\What pikers! Shoot for $50/hr. this year, and $100/hr. next year! Hey, if the DEI supervisor makes $700,000 a year and produces NOTHING, a person who feeds a bunch of people deserves at LEAST as much, right! ...... just so long as y'all stay in KommieFormia, and don't come infect my nice quite corner of Flyover Country!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Italiano 2/27/2025 7:46:10 PM (No. 1905162)
OK robots and machines, job opportunity.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: red1066 2/27/2025 7:57:59 PM (No. 1905167)
Let the layoffs continue.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Vitaman 2/27/2025 7:58:24 PM (No. 1905168)
Yeah, because the previous meddling in the employer-employee contract has been such a glaring success.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 2/27/2025 8:15:46 PM (No. 1905179)
Ever consider that artificially set wages cause inflation, driving the cost of living up,requiring a raise of the wages, causing more inflation, ... It's a circular firing squad. Liberals don't understand economics.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: sw penn 2/27/2025 8:23:07 PM (No. 1905182)
$20.70 minimum wage? Oh dear. Are there still too many fast-food workers in California?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: DVC 2/27/2025 8:23:41 PM (No. 1905183)
And loser more jobs, and kill more businesses. Idiots gotta idiot.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 2/27/2025 8:27:45 PM (No. 1905185)
Gonzales of the food workers union needs to learn to code.... or something that gets her a higher paying job. Working in the fast-food industry is honorable, but if it doesn't pay, GET OFF YOUR *** and do something to improve yourself! No one owes you a job. No one owes you a living.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Axeman 2/27/2025 8:36:26 PM (No. 1905192)
I used buy lunch most days. Now I skip lunch. i used to go to restaurants for dinner about once a week. Now it's five times a year. It's not just the price, either. The quantity, quality, and service have all gotten worse as the price went up.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: JHHolliday 2/27/2025 8:39:34 PM (No. 1905193)
Looks like the fast food restaurants will be leaving California right behind the insurance companies. Forcing businesses to lose money is not a viable long term plan for keeping them in your state.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 2/27/2025 9:02:47 PM (No. 1905207)
Robots and algorithms don't need $20.70 an hour.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: BarryNo 2/27/2025 9:05:08 PM (No. 1905210)
... And lose more entry level jobs for needy Americans... They ARE cruel.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: hershey 2/27/2025 9:15:57 PM (No. 1905215)
Nothing like cutting your own throat...more businesses will close because of costs..
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Kate318 2/28/2025 12:05:06 AM (No. 1905298)
Geezy peets, CA. Haven’t you lost enough fast food businesses?
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Reply 20 - Posted by: crashnburn 2/28/2025 12:16:29 AM (No. 1905303)
It's almost a law of nature. Every time the minimum wage goes up, unemployment also goes up. And fast food is not a career. It's a starter job for young people, and income supplement for people who didn't plan their retirement well.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: mifla 2/28/2025 4:36:13 AM (No. 1905345)
"Congratulations! You just got a raise! By the way, you are fired." You just cannot fix stupid.
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