A law aimed at raising fast-food wages and creating better working conditions gets put to California voters in 2024.
The law establishes a 10-member council empowered to set minimum wages and standards for hours and working conditions forTwo industry groups, the International Franchise Association and the National Restaurant Association, promoted the referendum that would leave its fate to voters.
Opponents, who raised more than $10 million last year to fund the referendum campaign, argue that the law would burden owners of chain restaurant franchises and drive up the cost of food. Fast-food workers drive through a McDonald's restaurant demanding a $15 hourly minimum wage in East Los Angeles, Friday, March 12, 2021.The law was temporarily blocked from taking effect in December by a Sacramento County Superior Court judge while ballot signatures were counted and verified.
The measure would have raised employee wages to as much as $22 an hour by the end of this year for chains such asCalifornia’s current minimum wage for all workers is $15.50 an hour. Both sides are expected to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to entice voters in the referendum fight.MCDONALD'S UNVEILS FIRST AUTOMATED LOCATION"Despite fast food corporations’ efforts to distort the referendum process, we know California voters see through their tricks," SEIU President Mary Kay Henderson said in a statement. "No corporation is more powerful than half a million workers joining together to demand a seat at the table.
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