Nearly 1 million California workers are poised to win major salary increases after labor unions flexed their collective muscle in the state's Democratic-led Legislature on Monday following a summer of high-profile strikes in the entertainment and hospitality industries.
California's minimum wage is already among the highest in the country at $15.50 per hour. The fast food bill would increase that minimum wage to $20 per hour for workers at restaurants in California that have at least 60 locations nationwide - with an exception for restaurants that make and sell their own bread, like Panera Bread.
The $20 hourly wage would be a starting point. The nine-member Fast Food Council, which would include representatives from the restaurant industry and labor, would have the power to increase that minimum wage each year by up to 3.5% or the change in the U.S. consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, whichever is lower.
"Everyone in the healthcare sector understands that we have a workforce crisis, and that wages are the essential prerequisite for any solution," said Tia Orr, executive director of the Service Employees International Union-California. "With this increase, more workers will join and stay in the healthcare workforce, and as a result Californians will be safer and better cared for.
Hospitals support the bill in part because it "ensures that wages for health care workers are set by the state, creating greater equity for all of California's health care workforce," said Carmela Coyle, president and CEO of the California Hospital Association.
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