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On Tuesday afternoon, champions of AB 257 — such as Assembly members Wendy Carillo and Miguel Santiago — spoke to a loud crowd of fast food workers and supporters. This comes after the news that Starbucks, McDonald’s and other fast food chains are seeking to pass a referendum that would overturn AB 257, which Gov. Newsom signed into law on Labor Day.
AB 257 gives more than half a million low-wage fast food workers the power to raise the industry-wide minimum wage to up to $22 per hour. Moreover, the bill creates a statewide fast food council to set standards across the industry that improve working conditions that will work with individual franchises to ensure safety, health and compliance within stores.
California’s fast food workers are more than twice as likely to live in poverty compared to other workers in the state. Additionally, nearly 80% of California’s fast food workers are people of color and about two-thirds are women.
The Fast Food Industry Coalition deems AB 257 to be a threat to restaurant business. The group hopes to block the law until it can be presented before California voters. According to the Los Angeles Times, “The coalition is in the process of collecting enough signatures by the Dec. 4 deadline to get the referendum on the November 2024 ballot.”
At noon Tuesday at a Starbucks on North Figueroa Street, workers made it clear that they were not on board with these initiatives.
David Green, a social worker at Los Angeles County Department of Children...
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