BREAKING: After years of organizing & pressure from workers, legislation was just introduced in California that gives us a seat at the table, power in the industry, and will raise fast food workers wages to $20/hr. #AB1228 #CALeg Today @ChrisHoldenNews amended legislation to raise the min wage to $20/hour for fast food workers, a 25% raise for lowest paid workers.

This amended #AB1228 would implement key portions of #AB257 & raise wages in 4/1/24, contingent on withdrawal of the industry's referendum.

BREAKING: After workers organize strikes at over 350 restaurants across the state, California’s State Senate has passed #AB257

Today is a watershed moment in the history of the labor movement; 550,000 fast food workers in CA will soon have a seat at the table with our employers After a concurrence vote in the Assembly, AB 257 heads to @CAGovernor’s desk for signature.

The Fast Food Council would give over half a million workers a seat at the table on issues like wages, health & safety, the right to be free from discrimination & harassment & more.

Without adequate worker protections in place, the teenage workers to whom McDonald’s directs its employment messaging on @indeed and @Monster are being funneled into a workplace environment where they are uniquely vulnerable.

#metoo, @McDonalds teenvogue.com/story/fight-fo… @indeed @Monster @McDonalds A class action sexual harassment lawsuit in Michigan features signed declarations from 11 @McDonalds workers. Eight of them were teenagers during the time period covered by the lawsuit. For seven, it was their first job.

"[The CBO's] estimates [on the $15 minimum wage] are a bit too pessimistic—including compared to their analysis a few years back. The high-quality research on this topic tends to suggest pretty small employment effects"

@arindube today w/ @kairyssdal + @mollywood

#RaiseTheWage

https://twitter.com/Marketplace/status/1359579919710380036

"What I found is that overall, the most up-to-date research finds a fairly muted effect on unemployment while really sharply increasing the earnings of low-paid workers this includes some of the more recent ambitious policies in the US and UK."

BREAKING: @SheenBean32, the very first #FightFor15 worker to go on strike in St. Louis, is the projected winner of Missouri State Assembly's 78th District! Rasheen first got involved with @show_me15 in 2013. Michael Brown was murdered in the Summer of 2014, and Rasheen went from a worker leader to a community organizer, and became the youngest member of the Ferguson commission.