Governor Gavin Newsom signed on to a compromise bill hammered out by workers and the fast food industry.
A rally for fast food workers in Los Angeles this summer. Photo: Mel Melcon/Getty Images
California governor Gavin Newsom signed a law on Thursday that will raise fast food workers' pay in the state to $20 an hour starting in April 2024.The law's passage is a huge win for labor — the campaign around this law was led by the Service Employees International Union — and signals$20 an hour is a big raise for a lot of workers. Fast food workers in the state made an average of $16.60 an hour in 2022. The state's minimum wage is $15.50.
Meanwhile, in another win for workers on Thursday, Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub were blocked in their attempt to keep an $18 minimum wage for NYC delivery workers from moving forward.The new law also establishes a fast food council composed of representatives from labor and the industry that has the power to craft rules about working conditions — and is viewed as a step toward European-style sectoral bargaining..
An opposition campaign, spearheaded by the fast food industry, succeeded in putting the law on hold, and set in motion a statewide referendum to reverse it. But workers, backed by SEIU, succeeded in getting the industry to the negotiating table to hammer out a compromise. The two sides hadn't taken that kind of step before. (Read more about the strategy in the
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