WSJ hammers Newsom for 'extorting' CA businesses by forcing $20/hr min. wage: ‘Who’s the real authoritarian?'

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WSJ hammers Newsom for 'extorting' CA businesses by forcing $20/hr min. wage: ‘Who’s the real authoritarian?'
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Democrats are extorting fast-food businesses to do their bidding, a WSJ editorial board said, with a new bill requiring businesses provide workers $20 an hr minimum wage.

accused the state's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom of acting like an"authoritarian" for supporting a move by his party and labor unions that gives the state greater authority to regulate the industry. Under a new deal struck by the governor's office, fast food restaurants, with some exceptions, must adopt a $20/hr minimum wage for workers starting next year.on the 2024 ballot to overturn a law Newsom signed last year.

The Wall Street Journal said Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., doesn’t seem concerned by how unions and Democrats in Sacramento are"subverting democracy to extort fast-food businesses to do their bidding" with a new fast food law.

The WSJ warned this deal could raise costs for consumers in a state that's already struggling financially with a $32 billion budget deficit and 4.6% unemployment rate.

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