Fast-food workers make up 11% of all homeless workers in California, according to a report, with an average salary of $14,949 in 2020. In addition to low wages, fast-food workers are hamstrung by part-time hours and unpredictable on-demand scheduling.
Fast-food workers protest for a $15 hourly minimum wage outside a McDonald's restaurant in East Los Angeles in 2021. A new union-sponsored report said fast-food workers make up 5.9% of California's homeless population.
Of the total homeless population, the group estimated that people who have worked fast-food jobs in the past 12 months make up 5.9% in California and 5.2% in L.A. County. It said the median annual earnings of frontline fast-food workers — such as cooks, cashiers, food prep workers and dishwashers — was $14,949 statewide in 2020.
The fast-food industry benefits everyone but the workers, said Daniel Flaming, president of Economic Roundtable. Customers get cheap and efficient meals while the fast-food brands, which flourished during the pandemic, make billions of dollars annually. Economic Roundtable’s findings were heavily criticized by the International Franchise Assn. The trade group, which represents franchise brands and their franchisees, said the SEIU was using the findings "to advocate for its union growth agenda."
De la Torre is still homeless today, a situation unlikely to change in the near future after he lost his job in March when the Papa Johns branch abruptly closed.
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