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No Fooling: Gov. Newsom's $20 Minimum Wage Hits April 1​

I wish we could call “April fool!” on the $20 minimum wage hitting California fast-food restaurants on April 1. But the wage hike signed into law last September by Gov. Gavin Newsom is really going to hit hard.

Last December, Pizza Hut announced it would lay off more than 1,200 delivery drivers across the state. It switched to independent deliver services for home delivery. On March 25, the Wall Street Journal reported on driver Michael Ojeda, 29, “who previously supported his mother and partner on his Pizza Hut delivery wages.” He told the paper, “Pizza Hut was my career for nearly a decade and with little to no notice it was taken away.”

Round Table Pizza also laid off 73 drivers. And, “In San Jose, Brian Hom, owner of two Vitality Bowls restaurants, now runs his stores with two employees, versus four workers that he typically used in the past. That means it takes longer to make customers’ açaí bowls and other orders, and Hom said he is also raising prices by around 10 percent to help cover the increased labor costs. ”

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No Fooling: Gov. Newsom's $20 Minimum Wage Hits April 1 | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
www.zerohedge.com
 
searcher said:
But the wage hike signed into law last September by Gov. Gavin Newsom is really going to hit hard.
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Only the idiots in charge thought it wouldn't. Everyone with a lick of sense to 'em, coulda told 'em what was gonna happen.
 
Joe King said:
Only the idiots in charge thought it wouldn't. Everyone with a lick of sense to 'em, coulda told 'em what was gonna happen.
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It's not about "what was gonna happen."

It's about buying votes from the sheeple - and the do-gooder society matrons who, sadly, ALSO vote.
 
Casey Jones said:
It's not about "what was gonna happen."

It's about buying votes from the sheeple - and the do-gooder society matrons who, sadly, ALSO vote.
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If half the people affected lose their jobs after the wage goes up, I don't think it'll get 'em as many votes as they thought it would.
....and my comment was that anyone could have known that by raising it that much, that the result would in fact be layoffs. Ie: what they got.
 
may not be able to afford a big mac anymore either ....t
 
Joe King said:
If half the people affected lose their jobs after the wage goes up, I don't think it'll get 'em as many votes as they thought it would.
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Give 'em Forever Unemployment; raise it to 300 percent of their take-home; call it an Economic Stimulus Package, put it in an Emergency Omnibus Bill...

...and they've vote Xiden long after Slo Joe is com post.
 

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FULL-PAGE AD Calls Out Governor Newsom, Highlights Victims of Recent Minimum Wage Hike - CABIA

Today, the California Business and Industrial Alliance (CABIA) will run a full-page ad in the statewide edition of USA Today showcasing the detrimental impact of California’s recent minimum wage hikes for fast-food restaurants. The ad lists out the mock “obituaries” of restaurants that have been...
cabia.org
 


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No, California's $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers did not create jobs

A University of California, Berkeley, study trumpeted in the media doesn't say what the press release claims.
reason.com
 
Easy, higher wages brought in better workers, better workers brought in happier customers, happier customers brought more demand, demand brought more jobs...
 
Fatrat said:
Easy, higher wages brought in better workers, better workers brought in happier customers, happier customers brought more demand, demand brought more jobs...
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Problem is, we don't actually get "better workers".

We get the same ones who at $10/hr forgot to put fries in the bag.
Or forgot to include the ketchup or bbq sauce packets.
Or give ya a Dr Pepper instead of a Coke,
Or go ahead and put onions on your burger even after you told 'em twice while ordering, not to.

All the $20/hr min wage did, was to give the same people who couldn't do a good job at $10/hr, double the money for the same quality of work.
 
Higher wages are a reward for the proven ability to do a better job.

Higher wages as a motivator to do better job in the future, don't work.

Best ya might get, if anything, is a temporary imptovement until the new higher wages seem normal to the employee. At which point you start getting the previous level of quality you got at the old wage.
 
Whataburger is about the only fast food burger that's any good. I don't have one even remotely close to me. All of them are down south it looks like.
 
Cigarlover said:
Whataburger is about the only fast food burger that's any good. I don't have one even remotely close to me. All of them are down south it looks like.
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They are pretty good, but in years past, their fries (imho) were better than they are now.
....and I will admit that they are probably the least likely of fast food places to screw up your order.
 
Wrong, better pay always brings better workers,
In that case, minimum wage wasn't high enough to get the good workers, in a capitalist society, you get what you pay for...or don't.
 
Fatrat said:
Wrong, better pay always brings better workers,
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It's not as though they are getting rid of them and re-hiring new, better workers.

No, they are giving the same people who screw up peoples orders, more money.

Fatrat said:
In that case, minimum wage wasn't high enough to get the good workers, in a capitalist society, you get what you pay for...or don't.
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Sad to say, but even $20 seems to not be able to get someone who can remember to put your fries in the bag.
 
Two articles on minimum wage I thought interesting. Take each one fwiw and dyodd.

The California Job-Killer That Wasn’t

The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a failure?
www.theatlantic.com

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