California implemented a $20 minimum wage only a month ago, which many workers celebrated. However, the initial optimism has given way to concerns as massive layoffs sweep various industries. Who could have predicted that?
Also, not every fast food worker is getting $20 an hour. Now, all want wage increases, and the unions are pushing for more with no end in sight.
Before you know it, more layoffs will follow, and businesses will fold. We could start seeing robots.
The LA Times
“Clearly, the Legislature understands that some workers deserve $20, so they must understand that everybody deserves $20,” said Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, a national organization calling for higher salaries in the service sector.
Jayaraman, also director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley, led a rally outside the Capitol in Sacramento last week, calling for a statewide $20 minimum wage for all…
Last week, San Diego unions representing hotel, janitorial, and convention workers called for $25 an hour. In another move reflective of how the movement has changed, the Fight for $15 campaign — nearly a decade ago considered revolutionary — changed its name last week to Fight for a Union…
“Should we do more than $18? Yeah, of course,” Sanberg said. “This idea to pull it back in order to go for something bigger in the future … that point of view is kind of making chess pieces out of working people’s lives.”…
The minimum wage in Los Angeles will increase by 50 cents in July to $17.28 an hour.
Officials in West Hollywood raised the minimum wage to $19.08… Employers in Mountain View, San Francisco, and Berkeley have to pay more than $18 an hour.
Reality
Republicans and businesses like the California Chamber of Commerce oppose minimum wage hikes. They argue that business owners should be responsible for their own financial decisions.
“We can’t expect the business community to continue to absorb this time and time again,” said Assemblymember Heath Flora (R-Ripon), who co-chairs the labor committee.
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Where in the Constitution does the government have the power to mandate wages?
This is the defination of Fascism the left is always howling about. Private ownership of business with government control.
There should not be a gov.mandated min wage, the business should offer a wage and raise it as needed until they get the workers they want/need
No government needed
Gov. is the problem!
Was California experiencing a critical shortage of fast-food workers to need to raise the rates. It seems to me that free markets should set rates. If a business can’t find workers at $X then they offer $Y dollars. It is entirely consentual to accept employment at a certain pay rate or not. Now, in California, fast-food has become unaffordable for… Read more »
Madness!
When the robots come in they will demand $30×40 hours a week from welfare.
Unfortuntely robots don’t pray income taxes.
OOOPPPPSSSSS!
I might have inspired CA to tax robots at $20/hour just to pay for all the welfare giveaways. :wpds_sad:
If the globalists haven’t gotten rid of the excess people by then (The carbon they want to get rid of in their climate change scam is us) that is what will likely happen if Robots massively take jobs. Robots and prolly folks who still have jobs will be taxed to provide a “Universal Basic Income” for those who don’t have… Read more »
I’m pretty sure that Democrats will figure out a way to tax the productive efforts of robots one way or another and directy or indirectly or both. Obviously, the Income Tax is an indirect way. To the extent that robot labor leads to reduced labor costs then income will go up and that income will be taxed. But I bet… Read more »