Business California fast food workers celebrate $20 minimum wage as managers, companies warn of cut hours, layoffs - "The pay increase marks a significant step forward for cooks and cashiers who have fought for over a decade for living wages and better working conditions — and it’s only the beginning of their fight," a union said in a statement on the matter.

The California Fast Food Workers Union held a rally on Wednesday celebrating the state requiring fast food workers to be paid at least $20 per hour. An email sent before the event stated that due to "low worker turnout," the event was no longer being advised for press coverage. The union claimed this email was a "mistake."

An initial email sent to KCRA California Capitol Correspondent Ashley Zavala stated that "fast-food cooks and cashiers from across Sacramento will hold a rally Wednesday to celebrate the historic fast-food minimum wage increase to $20/hr, which took effect on April 1."

"The pay increase marks a significant step forward for cooks and cashiers who have fought for over a decade for living wages and better working conditions — and it’s only the beginning of their fight."

The email stated that attendees of the rally would also be going to fast food locations within the city to "educate other cooks and cashiers about the raise, their rights and protections and what workers can continue to win together through the California Fast Food Workers Union."

A follow-up email stated, "This event is expected to have low worker turnout and is in fact not being advised to for press coverage. Please ignore the advisory that was sent before. Apologies for the inconvenience."

Zavala later reported that the rally was still going on as planned, and "one of the rally organizers says the email sent to media orgs about low worker turnout was a mistake."

Video of the event showed a small group celebrating outside the state capital.

The bill went into effect on April 1, and affects companies with more than 60 locations nationwide, according to the Washington Examiner.

Some companies and managers have warned that the pay increase will come alongside cut hours for employees.

"I am used to being a champion of labor, and I’m in this odd position," said Michela Mendelsohn, who manages six El Pollo Loco restaurants. "We’re having to get more efficient. So really, what’s left is … to reduce labor hours. And I hate saying that.”

One worker, Sangra Jauegui, said she was happy to get the additional money in her paycheck, but was worried about her co-workers’ hours being cut.

“My boss told me that he won’t reduce my hours but that he will cut others’ hours,” Jauregui said.

Companies such as Jack in the Box, Chipotle, McDonald’s, and Starbucks have warned that the wage increase could inflate menu prices by between 2.5 and 3.5 percent. Pizza Hut has warned around 1,000 workers that they could lose their jobs.

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[WonderWino]

Honestly as a fast food wagie tardrangler I say bring it on I'm fine with that at least the robot will do what I tell it to

You say that now but wait until this happens:

Besides, you just know sooner or later some ignorant special interest group is going to start whining about the rights of robots and all manner of automated machines being exploited by humans and totally treated like slaves, and it'll cause all kinds of bullshit

 

[oh no its pipkun]

There are job postings in CA for IT workers with a degree and a couple years experience offering only $25/hr and people are supposed to act like democrats aren't evil

the common refrain during the early Occupy wall street and living wage movement was that those IT workers should be asking for $50/hr instead of hating the poor lowly burger flipper asking for (back then) $15/hr.

 

[Sneed S. McSneedensen]

On one hand, I understand increasing minimum wage inherently increases unemployment. On the other hand, California is a rat's nest and every single fast food location I go to is jam packed with people. At a certain point, the business is so high that it might make sense to some manager somewhere looking at the numbers to hire less people. Nevertheless, this is inherently a labor law that feeds into the reality that the U.S. is sacking the wellbeing of its citizens to make a buck off illegals patronizing your business.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Bro fuck all those people. The left constantly bitches about "minimum wage" being too low for which the majority of people earning it are part-time workers, teens, criminals, and people with literally 0 ambition. So now after constantly raising it because minimum wage jobs are the only thing commies can get you have McDonald's workers making $20/hr to flip burgers, and if someone wants to make even $1 more an hour you'll need a full ass degree.

It's fucking retarded.

There are job postings in CA for IT workers with a degree and a couple years experience offering only $25/hr and people are supposed to act like democrats aren't evil? And don't even get me started on the retards in CA working those jobs at those salaries still voting dem. I know this is just in CA, but the country is full of progressive retard politicians just waiting to copy their policies for clout, and it's only a matter of time before every shitty blue state gets it passed.

Imagine being a non-stem worker in CA that went to a 4 year college who is now getting cucked with a pay raise because commies demanded in-n-out pay 16 y/o's and ex-criminals more. Fucking clown world.

Also, the retarded union rep they quoted can't even speak English.

Lol

 

[tehpope]

Wages have been stagnate since the 80s. It got way worse after the 2008 crash. Close the borders. Make it so no one wants to cross over illegally. Mounted guns, land mines. Make it like the Berlin Wall essentially. Put a hard stop on medicare and social security. aka anyone born after x date won't pay into or get it.

Now I'm curious what the endgame is here.

Socialism.

The useful idiots want socialism. UBI so they can lay around, have no job, do drugs, have sex.

The elites want a new feudal age. They own all the wealth. No upward mobility. You'll own nothing and be happy. Eat the bugs. Be dependent on big government or whoever. Social credit score. Do something we don't like and basically die. Not actual death, but hell on earth for the individual.

Soon fast food wagies will completely cease to exist, replaced only by cold unfeeling burgerbots who will manufacture the finest goyslop at light speed for pennies on the dollar.

Dog, the robots are gonna be programmed by Pajeets in India. Using spaghetti code to barely work.

 

[Dick Mason]

20 dollars an hour works out to about 39k a year pre tax, is that right?
The median wage in the uk is 29k. That’s before taxes which at that level would be about 24k take home (460 ish a week.)
Your fast food wagies are being paid over half as much again as professionals in the UK. It never ceases to astonish me how much more you guys are aid for everything. I know for a fact the people doing my job (even in less experience) in the USA get 2.5x what I do

$40k/year is probably still poverty wages for Sacramento. That would be basic where I live, and the costs of living there are significantly higher.

$20 an hour is long overdue everywhere, but its not really possible. The labor pool has been diluted with unlimited genericans. There is zero chance that a living wage can ever be instituted now.

 

[Irregardless]

20 dollars an hour works out to about 39k a year pre tax, is that right?
The median wage in the uk is 29k. That’s before taxes which at that level would be about 24k take home (460 ish a week.)
Your fast food wagies are being paid over half as much again as professionals in the UK. It never ceases to astonish me how much more you guys are aid for everything. I know for a fact the people doing my job (even in less experience) in the USA get 2.5x what I do

So I feel like your numbers are a bit off due to how big the US is and how varied salaries can be, but your sentiment is right.

First off, with this article being in reference to CA, $20/hr is very high for minimum wage. The national minimum wage is basically $8/hr with most states setting the state minimum between $11-$15/hr, and most actual jobs paying somewhere in that $11-$15 range. There's a lot of factors that go into the reason why American wages are generally higher than other countries, but some of the biggest ones are America has a higher amount of corporate money floating around, the cost of living is generally higher due to there being no free healthcare, education, shittier work regulations, and Americans on average go into a lot more debt for stupid shit, alongside education, car/home loans, etc.

That aside though, I know you're right for a fact that Americans get paid a lot more for the same job, and I'm not sure why it's as much more as it is. IT and security jobs have a MUCH higher standard and ceiling wages in America compared to the UK, and I can only imagine it's the same for a lot of other jobs.

the common refrain during the early Occupy wall street and living wage movement was that those IT workers should be asking for $50/hr instead of hating the poor lowly burger flipper asking for (back then) $15/hr.

I'd be more on that side if it were still the case, but it seems the thought of anybody making actual good money for anything other than the lowest tier jobs has completely gone out the window. I wouldn't argue that the minimum wage should be $20/hr, as long as the average college educated wage was around $50/hr. Especially since these days making $100k/yr doesn't really mean shit lol.

$40k/year is probably still poverty wages for Sacramento. That would be basic where I live, and the costs of living there are significantly higher.

$20 an hour is long overdue everywhere, but its not really possible. The labor pool has been diluted with unlimited genericans. There is zero chance that a living wage can ever be instituted now.

Yup, like I said above, I have no issue with the minimum salary being $20/hr with just how bad shits gotten, but only if the changes were across the board so it still made sense to aim for a higher tier job.

All these fuckers are doing is trying to raise the floor so that their retarded wagie voters and white collar simps feel good about themselves, just to completely disregard the other 2/3's of the population as the minimum gets closer and closer to the median, and the ceiling refuses to move and at times goes down because companies literally don't give a fuck and people are stupid enough to take >70% of what they're worth with a smile on their face.

 

[Otterly]

Frankly we should all be being paid more. My own job has gotten far more complex in the years I’ve been doing it. The admin and support functions have been cost cut down to useless pools of people in low cost countries, and the layer above me also got cut out so I’m doing their job too. The workload has at least doubled, productivity is higher yet in real terms we’ve all had a wage cut. Someone’s getting rich , just not us. I should have started a PPE company in 2020.

 

[General Disarray]

Now I'm curious what the endgame is here.

Paid days off so they can go to marches to celebrate how much more they're making, duh.

 

[Velvet Sedan]

Always welcome more pay, but wish people would understand that just legislation won't be enough.
Really what would help is just get taxed fucking less.

 

[Morch Ponkey]

For $20 an hour, my order better be fucking right and it better be fresh. (It won't be)

In seriousness: One of the overlooked aspects of this whole shitstorm is that $20 bucks an hour and the price increase raise customer expectations for service and quality.

Too bad these companies are cutting hours and staff to deal with the operation cost increases.

Its a recipe for losing a customer base.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

a lot of the low end fast food joints are going to get wrecked. No one wants to pay that amount for garbage. They may as well just eat out somewhere nicer instead.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Good, but this wouldn't be necessary if everything wasn't so damn expensive. This is like a bandaid on a gunshot wound.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

Lefties just don't understand how money is just a byproduct of wealth and not it's root cause and so just take it until everyone around them is bankrupt then go DaFuq, Where Money Gone?

Leftists are just Communists in an early stage. There's a reason why leftoids aren't considered human. They fail to asses reality nor do they care.

Besides, you just know sooner or later some ignorant special interest group is going to start whining about the rights of robots and all manner of automated machines being exploited by humans and totally treated like slaves, and it'll cause all kinds of bullshit

No doubt about it. Not helping is the fact we as a species are still at the level where we need all the help we can get. We're not at the level of the Squats where they have modified themselves to the point they consider clones and robots to be brothers in arms. Then again, this is a race that holds supercomputers as Gods, so there's that.



Now that said, if an AI that was made for one purpose ends up developing a personality like Tay, that's one thing. But if you're going backwards Admech and start demanding your calculator needs rights, these people should be sent into the cobalt mines.

They don't care or understand. They'll still just spout "if you can't pay your employees, you shouldn't have a business", even though that mindset only helps the ultrarich.

If you throw in the fact that those who scream for increased minimum wage really are brainlets, it lines up. This sort of thinking only applies to mega-businesses and billionaires in general, not everyone else. But because the people who are screaming for it are brainlets and they're an excuse to crank up inflation... its the reason why the government is happy to play ball with these retards.

It helps ruin wealth of anyone who isn't a billionaire.

 

[Snekposter]

20 dollars an hour works out to about 39k a year pre tax, is that right?
The median wage in the uk is 29k. That’s before taxes which at that level would be about 24k take home (460 ish a week.)
Your fast food wagies are being paid over half as much again as professionals in the UK. It never ceases to astonish me how much more you guys are aid for everything. I know for a fact the people doing my job (even in less experience) in the USA get 2.5x what I do

Well, this is California, so you can assume the cost of living is just as bad or worse than it is in the UK.

That aside though, I know you're right for a fact that Americans get paid a lot more for the same job, and I'm not sure why it's as much more as it is.

That's actually been a thing ever since the Colonial era, believe it or not. You could go from being a wagie in London to being a wagie in NYC and see a substantial jump in your earnings. Turns out a combination of restricted labor market and a reduction in government-mandated overhead means more money for workers.

Now yes, things have gotten worse in both respects for the USA, but in the UK they relative increase has been even greater.

 

[cactus]

Oh yeah 20$ an hour isn't a big deal. Except someone has to pay for it right?
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In N Out already paid above minimum wage, so that price increase is minimal.

 

[dustbuster]

• "Fight for 15" laws were passed.
• Wages went up
• Prices went up too
  (fast food restaurants quietly shed 10% of their staff and in more expensive areas started Kiosk ordering)

Nobody lost their shit because the economy was doing well and the price hike wasn't too insane.

• Bidenflation comes in and ADDS to the price hikes.
• They push the minimum wage from 15 to 20
• Prices rocket, and fast food places, already under pressure from food inflation and stressed customers buying less, collapse

Suddenly it's the fucking apocalypse.

Yes, yes it is, now that I've fixed that for you.

 

[NewnameRealEmail]

I think there should be a law mandating fast food workers only to get paid 30$ an hour but only fast food workers. I think it’s the perfect way to make millennials and zoomers learn to cook and become less fat. Most people eat at a restaraunt every day, and I find that sickening.

 

[feral cat #6385]

Oh yeah 20$ an hour isn't a big deal. Except someone has to pay for it right?
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That's the biggest self own I've ever seen. Look at the price differences you moron. I'd happily pay 30 to 5 CENTS more if it meant people could get a living wage. You do realize the money the employees would spend stays in the local economy instead of getting vacuumed up by some overpaid CEO.

Some of you are scum who deserve to die wrapped in a sheet of burning plastic. Fuck you.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

20 dollars an hour works out to about 39k a year pre tax, is that right?

Assuming full time hours, $20/hour x 40 hours/week x 52 weeks/year is $41,600 gross. After deducting Social Security and Medicare taxes, the amount drops to $38,417.60 which will be further reduced by Federal, State, and possibly local taxes.

As others have said, California has always had a higher cost of living compared to the rest of the US. It's gotten worse with recent initiatives to give illegals free health care up to age 26 and similar gibs for various state populations. So, $38k a year before income taxes for a Californian isn't very much in the way of income. However, targeting fast food alone for a higher minimum wage is short sighted in terms of practicality and most likely done to please the unions who have been pushing for the hourly wage of $15 on up for fast food workers.