Posted on 09/13/2013 7:13:36 AM PDT by artichokegrower
SACRAMENTO -- California's lowest-paid workers are in store for a 25 percent raise after lawmakers late Thursday boosted the Golden State's minimum wage to the highest of any state in the country.
In the final hours of its 2013 regular session, the Legislature voted to hike the minimum wage from $8 an hour to $9 next July and $10 by January 2016 -- a move Democrats praised as a boon to struggling workers and Republicans lambasted as a "job killer."
Gov. Jerry Brown has already promised to sign the bill, making California a leader in a growing movement to increase wages for the working poor spurred by protesting fast-food workers across the country.
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“...in the Central valley and the mountains near Nevada, this is ABSURD...”
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Dictating the “value” of labor is always absurd.
I wonder when they will get around to dictating a maximum wage.
Idiots.
Is there a California ping list?
I’m a 5th generation San Franciscan, and a refugee from the idiocy. I achingly miss the place because it’s home and always has been, but I know that I can’t go back. At least- not anytime soon.
Not just the unions. It also increases the amount of tax to be collected on income. Increasing minimum wage is not for the benefit of the bottom earners, it is all about increasing money flow into the capitol.
They already tried that back in the 1930s. Needless to say, it helped keep the Depression around for quite a long time.
After WWII, they relented a bit, setting the top rate (for those making over $100,000/yr) at 91%. It stayed at that rate until JFK.
“after Owe-bamacare cut the workweek to 29.5 hours, now they will eliminate jobs.”
Or cut the workweek to 23 hours
Not that we need more minimum wage earners or more Californians but I expect this will make at least some companies think hard about moving to business friendly Texas.
Economic resentment is a force of nature. There is no stopping this tsunami.
I can relate, I grew up in CA, my mother had to move her business in 84’ because she just couldn’t take the taxes. I would never move back but I sure miss the weather.
Well lucky you! But those of us stuck living here are going to see higher prices and slower service. All of these wanker liberals in our government haven’t a clue as to what they are doing to the economy, they just see increased taxes. As for the little people like fast food worker, they are looking to less hours, less coworkers on shift and a increased work load.
Bravo liberals, bravo!
They should also pass price caps! Why not bring in utopia at full speed.
They should also pass price caps! Why not bring in utopia at full speed.
That will never happen because it would limit the taxes they could suck from the people.
More technology will reduce the number of fast food workers like ATMs did to banks.
Higher minimum fewer jobs for teens. No one talking about lower rte to hire hs students?
They should also pass price caps! Why not bring in utopia at full speed.
I’m sorry but you seem a little naive. I have twenty two years past experience in fast food and I can tell you that starting in the eighties getting teens to work in the industry was already getting difficult, they don’t want to work in what is considered a low class job. Just ask people around you, hell Freepers what they think of fast food jobs. And above and beyond that fast food has been taken over at the lower levels by “immigrants” that we are supposed to feel sorry for because they can’t raise their families on minimum wage.
At some point you are going to figure out how much of your future, your freedom, your income and Constitutional Rights are worth balanced against the madness that is California. Do you like the good weather? The beaches?
The laid-backness of it all?
I can understand that CA is the historical (I mean multigenerational) home of people still there, but you just finally have to get down to the nasty fact is that you guys lost. Leave there. Take your work ethic, what resources you can save and leave it to the movie stars, blacks and Mexicans that have invaded it. You won’t ever get it back unless you are willing to pick up a weapon with all the other inlanders and fight for it.
I forgot to include technology, when I first started managing in the mid 70’s I had a staff of 125 on the schedule to man all shifts in the restaurant. When I left in 1998 I had on the schedule a staff of 40! Technology has been hell on fast food employment for a long long time.
They will continue beating us over the head with the “facts” that the 1968 Minimum Wage, adjusted for inflation, would be a bit over $10. And adjusted for corresponding increases in productivity, more like $15.
The low-info crowd will suck that up and fall into line like lemmings.
Restaurant prices are already rising at a pretty high clip...about not worth going to one anymore.
Aw, heck. Too bad California can’t just follow the feral government’s example and print as much money as its political lords and masters feel they need.
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