A first-of-its-kind California law that gives an unelected council unprecedented power over wages and working conditions at fast-food restaurants is sparking a furious backlash
Unions are preparing to fight back, calling the new law the most significant win for organized labor in a generation and vowing to do whatever it takes to protect it. “It’s a watershed moment in the history of the labor movement,” said Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union.
Although Gov. Gavin Newsom already signed the legislation, the law will be put on hold if opponents gather enough signatures — as expected — to get a proposition overturning it on the 2024 ballot.The developments come as the pandemic, coupled with inflation, has forced workers, employers and policymakers to rethink the employment landscape around the nation in multiple ways.
a dramatic departure from how wages and working conditions are currently established in this country. Typically, unionized workforces labor under contracts negotiated between unions and management, while at workplaces that are not unionized, executives simply call the shots.The California law sets up an entirely new system, similar to some seen in European countries, with a government-appointed council making binding decisions on many key issues.
She said the needed change can’t happen “if we tried a very traditional way of organizing under what we consider to be outdated, racist and sexist labor laws in which we’d be going one store at a time and trying to bargain with a franchise owner who doesn’t really have the power to raise wages or change conditions because the economic decisions are made in the home offices of the multinationals.
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