• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Why not raise it for everyone? I mean, this is a step, but it’s weird to think this group should make closer to a liveable wage, but these groups should work full time and not afford to live.

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      1 year ago

      This is a great question, I figured it would be the state wide minimum wage and the article nice focused on fast food. But it is indeed only fast food workers. The statewide minimum wage otherwise is $15.50.

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    Newsom’s signature on Thursday reflects the power and influence of labor unions in the nation’s most populous state, which have worked to organize fast food workers in an attempt to improve their wages and working conditions.

    “This is for my ancestors. This is for all the farm works, all the cotton-pickers. This is for them. We ride on their shoulders,” said Anneisha Williams, who works at a Jack in the Box restaurant in Southern California.