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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According to the CPI, the 1968 minimum wage would be worth $7.59 today. If you use the 1967 minimum wage, it comes to only $6.87 in today's dollars.
Burger King has had the conveyor belt flame broiler for quite a while. Whenever I mention the fact that raising minumum wages merely enhances the incentive to automate processes the economically illiterate class always just pshaws it and goes off topic...
The irony of a 91% upper income tax rate is that it effectively prevents EVERYONE not already rich from approaching that level. The already rich are well sheltered through trusts and legal tax avoidance schemes that it would take Joe Shmoe half a lifetime to get a grasp on, and he can’t afford the legal and accounting staff to do it sooner...
So, after your 20 years experience you still hadn’t figured out that your particular restaurants were free all along to offer a wage that would have attracted the desired labor? Yet you accuse us of treating the industry as a “low class” industry....
Can you see a connection?
Sheetz gas stations - lots opening in the SouthEast - are already automating.
Touchscreens to order. Pay for your order at the cash register - which is likely needed in a gas station, not so much in a McD's....could just put a credit card swipe on the side of the touchscreen..... Finally, one or sometimes two people cooking in the back.
That's all there is. I'll guess that's close to where fast food is headed, since $7.50/hr is a good salary for a smiling-faced button-pusher and change-giver, but $15/hr is a good salary for a basic technician to keep the automation going.
Liberals need to be careful for what they wish for. They may get it.
Naive?
I see immigrants, seniors, and students in SoCal. Perhaps my eye sight is bad also.
I oppose ,minimum wage laws
“Technology has been hell on fast food employment for a long long time.”
Yeah, and the automobile was hell on the horse breeders! Steel smelting was hell on blacksmiths...
Do you realize that what you listed as “hell on fast food” is actually called productivity improvement and is a leading indicator for growing economies?
When you start with a fraudulant premise (minimum wage) then you can only expand that fraud. (you = your use of they, not you in particular)
Wonder how many public union wage agreements are indexed off of minimum wage?
Another thing to consider is how they handle zoning laws and rent control. In San Francisco, rules have been set in place to protect those liberals who put these rules in place. But if you are a newcomer who wishes to share in this utopia, you will find that there is no welcome mat for you. Likewise, in NY City, rent controls ensure that those currently receiving them (i.e. Charlie Rangel) will have low rents forever, but the newcomer will find that rents for him will be exorbitantly high.
There were 1.3 million businesses in California at the end of 2012, 5.2% fewer than in 2011 (that’s about 73,000 fewer).
The day after Proposition 30 passed (November 6, 2012), triggering $6 billion in new annual taxes, Arizona launched a campaign to lure some of California’s top companies.
24 chief executives have now committed to leave California.
Intel announced that it will be investing billions to upgrade factories in Arizona, in addition to building a new factory in Oregon. The plan is projected to create between 6,000 and 8,000 construction jobs and 800 to 1,000 high-tech factory jobs, a huge loss for California.
“The Intel investment in Oregon, when you add it to Arizona, is $8 billion, with a ‘B,’ so the exodus of capital from California is running at an alarming rate.”
I just realized what California is doing is very patriotic.
They are willing to sacrifice their state to defeat Agenda 21!
Agenda 21 calls for the depopulation of middle America, with its population relocated to the coasts. But by making California so business unfriendly, California is driving people back into the heartland.
So three cheers for California!
Within a month of that prop passing a friend of mine saw his property value go up about 20% on the NV side of Tahoe from the number of units that sold to Californians in that period...
why sugar coat things
why not tell us how you really feel??
Do you understand the concept of profitability? I paid my employees as well as I could sometimes to my detriment since I had to answer to the Owner/Operator.Did I I in effect at any time infer that you were ignorant as you seem to be happy to slime me? Well let me say it now you are ignorant and to have no experience in the industry that I can infer for you to reply intelligently.Did I accuse YOU of treating the industry as low class? No not unless you are one of the many people I have interacted with over many years that have expressed that opinion. Can you see the connection? Apparently not!
Oh Ok let me rephrase it for you,. hell on fast food employment numbers.
When you replied to this comment:
“They should also pass price caps! Why not bring in utopia at full speed.”
You were replying to a comment that I had made. The other poster used my comment as a foundation for their own comments.
Then you called the comment naive, so yes you did “infer that I was ignorant.”
“Do you understand the concept of profitability?”
Yes, very much so.
“I paid my employees as well as I could sometimes to my detriment since I had to answer to the Owner/Operator.”
And here you prove my ACTUAL point. Your original post, that drew my sarcastic response, was implying that you were supportive of the California legislative action to increase minimum wage. Now, as you admit here, this will only harm the profitability for the owners of the business. So, in order to remain in business then the owner MUST increase prices or lay-off employees or both.
So, before the dictating of a wage by any state government, the owner and manager of a restaurant are free to pay a wage that they deem necessary to attract the appropriate labor for their market, and to let that cost flow through the pricing. If $10 an hour was not sustainable as a pass through cost to the customers while you were in the industry, then it is not sustainable today.
My point in the sarcastic reply to you was that your implication that the minimum wage increase would somehow allow for the restaurant to attract better employees is very disconnected from reality.
My comments remain unchanged to you. Technology causing “hell on fast food employment” is no different than steel smelters being hell on blacksmithing employment, or automobiles being hell on horse farming employment.
All of it is productivity improvement, which is a key indicator for leading economies world wide.
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