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Comment on California Loses Nearly 10,000 Fast-Food Jobs After $20 Minimum Wage Signed Last Fall

I missed that one. Did you post a link to it? I don’t see any other links in this thread. I admire your concern for the people who lost their jobs and I share that concern. You should never doubt that the plight of the proletariat is a fundamental concern at the heart of the revolutionary’s critique of capitalist exploitation.

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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
franchiseherald.com/…/fosters-freeze-closes-locat…

Here is another article on it

Navarro expressed that she and her former colleagues preferred to keep their old wages instead of losing their jobs altogether. “From what I’ve heard from my employees, we all would have chosen to stay at our previous wage because now we’re unemployed,” she told Fox Business.

“Small businesses can’t handle a more than 120% increase in the minimum wage over the last decade. We’re all poorer than we were ten years ago, which shows that raising the minimum wage isn’t helping,” he commented to the media.

The issue is that wages should have been increased more gradually over time and not rapidly when inflation was the highest and right after a pandemic. That is just dumb. People will only pay so much for fast food and that price is already exceeded.

foxbusiness.com/…/mcdonalds-25-deal-viral-users-b…

Yet the left claims they want to be more like Denmark but then balk when they find out Denmark doesn’t have a minimum wage.

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- Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I see. So Navarro the assistant general manager, who was probably getting an above minimum wage, was cooperating in the exploitation of whoever was working for $4 an hour. No one can support themselves on $4 an hour in California, so it was likely teenagers or students who probably won’t be cast into the street or go hungry at the loss of such a low wage job.
  
  I agree wages should have been raised gradually over time. There was very strong and well organized opposition to such an idea, mainly among republicans but also democrat collaborators.
  
  Another difference between the USA and Denmark: trade unions. Unfortunately for US workers, there has been a long history of union busting in America. Coupled with deliberately weak labor laws, union busting goes on.
  
  To act like a wage increase is some kind of curse against fast food employees is to ignore the long history of anti-worker legislation and practices in this country, which is again, either foolish or deceitful.
  
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  - wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Where did you get 4 dollars ? They were making at least 16
    
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    Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    That happened the same day the new minimum wage law took effect, raising pay for fast food workers to $20 an hour from $4.
    
    Thats where I got the $4 from. It wasn’t clear me it was a 4 dollar raise. I admit I may have had a poor reading comprehension moment there, but in my defence I have a concussion and my eyes are a bit blurry, also I am trying to avoid my wife catching me on the internet, since she thinks I should be resting in a dark room.
    
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