California JACKS UP Fast Food Minimum Wage To $20 Dollars An Hour
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BOP
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Another bill also awaiting Newsom’s signature in California is one that would raise minimum wages for healthcare workers starting on 1 June 2024 to $23 an hour.
“This is a victory for all working people because what standards fast-food workers are able to achieve by setting up the fast-food sector council table with franchise owners, with workers and government officials is going to reverberate across the country, and set in motion, I think, better working conditions across all industries,” Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, told the Guardian.
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“This is a victory for all working people because what standards fast-food workers are able to achieve by setting up the fast-food sector council table with franchise owners, with workers and government officials is going to reverberate across the country, and set in motion, I think, better working conditions across all industries,” Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, told the Guardian.
California’s fast-food workers win fight for $20 hourly pay and industry council
A new legislation will create a panel that will set wages and other standards for the industry
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22AcaciaAve
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Why is it that political leaders never realize the consequences for these actions. Great. Fast food workers make more money. So the fast food companies simply raise prices to accommodate the increase in wages. Pretty soon a Big Mac will cost $11.99 to make up for the profits lost to the increase in wages. These jobs were meant to be entry level jobs, not careers. Something totally lost on democrats.
LightRoasted
If I may ...
For your consideration ...
This is their solution/band-aide to a symptom of the ignored and well known problem/causation. Which is the reckless expansion of the money supply via the Federal Reserve which creates monetary inflation causing the dollar to be worth less. Got to keep the plebs happy in some fashion to keep the profits coming.
BTW. Why no arguments/disdain/disgust against the gross compensation of .... say .... teachers, such as those in Calvert County?
Especially given the abysmal academic proficiency rates of students. But hey, at least students know all about pronoun usage, sodomy, and other degenerate activities. By this chart, the Calvert County schools system, and its teachers, are complete failures at their job.
This is their solution/band-aide to a symptom of the ignored and well known problem/causation. Which is the reckless expansion of the money supply via the Federal Reserve which creates monetary inflation causing the dollar to be worth less. Got to keep the plebs happy in some fashion to keep the profits coming.
BTW. Why no arguments/disdain/disgust against the gross compensation of .... say .... teachers, such as those in Calvert County?
Especially given the abysmal academic proficiency rates of students. But hey, at least students know all about pronoun usage, sodomy, and other degenerate activities. By this chart, the Calvert County schools system, and its teachers, are complete failures at their job.
TPD
the poor dad
Maryland is going to $15 in January. What I have not been able to determine is if there is a carveout for teenagers. Currently, you only have to pay teenagers 85% of minimum wage if certain other criteria are met. I use this exception all the time for my teenage hires - no way do I want to pay teenagers a minimum wage of $15 for their 1st job that they have no clue what a work ethic is! So if someone can find better info on Maryland's new minimum wage and how it pertains to teenagers, I would appreciate it.
Hijinx
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I already stopped going to McDonalds when the prices went up the last time.
The price of their sandwich with those little thin squeezed out patties just isn't worth it.
In the morning I drive by Wawa and get a sausage and egg crousant for $3.00 and I don't have to wait for it either, I just pick it up and I am gone.
These brilliant California people who brag about how they will raise the salaries of people all over the country are too stupid to know that what they are really doing is adding to inflation and driving up the cost so that their raise means nothing.
The price of their sandwich with those little thin squeezed out patties just isn't worth it.
In the morning I drive by Wawa and get a sausage and egg crousant for $3.00 and I don't have to wait for it either, I just pick it up and I am gone.
These brilliant California people who brag about how they will raise the salaries of people all over the country are too stupid to know that what they are really doing is adding to inflation and driving up the cost so that their raise means nothing.
TPD
the poor dad
How do they not get that?! If I have to pay my employees more, I will raise the prices - no ifs, ands, or buts! It is that or cut back on services. See my post above. The service part of retail is already in the crapper but it will probably continue getting worse.
TPD
the poor dad
And I have said this in the past about minimum wage - my current minimum wage is $12.80 per hour. If I'm paying some of my better employees $15 per hour, then come Jan 1 when I have to raise my $12.80 people to $15 then my current $15 people will also expect a huge raise to more than $17. With the snap of a finger, you have just raised my labor costs 15-20%!
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the poor dad
Don't want to hijack the thread but just trying to wake some of you people up. Here is the Maryland minimum wage website:
Hijinx
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Wages are just like taxes in that respect. When taxes are raised on business the result is that prices are raised on individuals. These highly intelligent Democrats believe they are taxing business when that tax is merely passed on to me and the rest of the voters. Democrats depend on the stupidity of the Democrat voter who is too dumb to realize this. Trump[ had a great economy until the Chinese and the Democrats introduced their death virus and it's attendant vaccine and restrictions, and he lowered the taxes, and more money was paid in in taxes, because business was successful.
Sneakers
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The only thing I ever got there was a egg/sausage b'fast muffin. I've been making my own now, takes just a few minutes and is much better anyway at a far lower cost. I also don't have to change out of my lounge-wear.
Sneakers
Just sneakin' around....
Already started. Kiosks instead of multiple cashiers.
Maybe someday they'll automate the soft-serve so it works reliably.
PeoplesElbow
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Friends kid works at Nicolettis and told me they make over $20/hr
Sneakers
Just sneakin' around....
I would push a mower for hours and get $3-5, and that was considered good money back then. One rich guy gave me $10 and insisted I use his mowers. That was a dream job.
PeoplesElbow
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My first real job out of college, paid slightly under $21/hr as a degreed engineer in 2000, this was also higher than most because I had a MS.
