Newsom signed AB 257 to regulate the fast food industry working conditions and push the minimum wage to as much as $22 per hour next year

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Fast food workers across the state went on strike Tuesday as restaurant groups were gathering signatures to overturn a recently signed labor law.

AB 257, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on Labor Day, gives fast food workers a say in their pay and safety standards.

It is part of an ongoing theme where lawmakers will pass a bill, and then whatever group is upset about it will seek a way to overturn it by gathering signatures. Voters saw that during the election when they upheld the flavored tobacco ban.

Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, head of the California Labor Federation, said fast-food workers are standing up for what they worked hard to pass.

“A lot of these workers have withheld their labor. They're not going into work because it's so important to them," she said. "They earned this bill. They worked hard over two years to get a bill passed where they could have a voice on the job, and it is being stolen from them, and I do mean stolen.”

Newsom signed AB 257 to regulate the fast food industry working conditions and push the minimum wage to as much as $22 per hour next year.

Maria Bernal has worked at Jack in the Box in Sacramento for ten years.

"AB 257 means a radical change because this law will protect us and provide support to protect our rights as workers," Bernal said. "As human beings, we are not respected. They...

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