California workers put on notice hour cuts are coming with $20 minimum wage going into effect

[TrailerHitch]

Ahahahahahaha

I get it. You didn't take HS seriously, then shuffled through community college with a poli-sci major and now the best you can do is hotel maid and an SSEIU union card.

Ahahahaha! Perhaps you should have tried harder in school!

Yawn, when you can't debate what I say you attack me. Great Goebbels style propaganda. Your playground bully bull shit doesn't intimidate me or silence me.

Actually, I am a retired career firefighter. My state has created 453,000 jobs and most pay well above the minimum wage. How can that be? Hm...

 

[wizzard426]

A career firefighter. So?

 

[TrailerHitch]

A career firefighter. So?

SO...your idiot profile of me was so desperately wrong you look foolish and ignorant.

You are weak, you can't debate so you attack the messenger. I pity you, I really do. Don't get too smug because when it all collapses the masses will come for you.

 

[wizzard426]

SO...your idiot profile of me was so desperately wrong you look foolish and ignorant.

You are weak, you can't debate so you attack the messenger. I pity you, I really do. Don't get too smug because when it all collapses the masses will come for you.

The point stands. Perhaps you should have tried harder in school.....maybe you could have done better in life.

Ahahahahaha tell you what, dreg, bring two pitchforks!

 

[TrailerHitch]

The point stands. Perhaps you should have tried harder in school.....maybe you could have done better in life.

Ahahahahaha tell you what, dreg, bring two pitchforks!

I've done fine, Retired at 54, have a great pension and social security. I'm satisfied where I am in life because i didn't have to shit all over anyone to get what I've got.

I didn't say I would bring a pitchfork...

You really are a sad pathetic little man. Every word out of your mouth is an attack. You really know nothing about me other than I disagree with our greed centric based economy. When CEOs make 1,000 to 10,000 times more than their employees and cry poor during wage negotiations the system is fucked up. You don't care because you reap profits off their labors and care nothing about how you profit, just that you do.

 

[Rightguide]

The wage increase, while extreme, is less responsible than corporate greed. With record profits they continue to raise prices and underpay their workers. No matter how much you may wish it you simply cannot replace all workers with AI and robots.

Not really. Employers aren't the reason prices are rising and rendering wage rates insufficient. The $20 dollar and hour Minimum wage increase in California represents a 25% increase seen nowhere else in the industrialized world. The reality is to accommodate the new wage rate prices have to go up or production costs have to come down in a competitive market where profit margins are already low. Here's what is going to happen as a result:

California Burger King franchisee to expedite self-serve kiosks rollout over $20 wage law​

By
Social Links forAriel Zilber
Published April 12, 2024, 10:48 a.m. ET

A businessman who owns 140 Burger King franchises in California will slash workers’ hours and expedite the rollout of self-service kiosks to cut down on labor costs in response to the state’s new $20 minimum wage.

Harshraj Ghai, who owns 180 fast-food restaurants throughout the Golden State, including Burger King, Taco Bell and Popeyes, told Business Insider last week: “We can’t move fast enough on this [rollout].”

“We have kiosks in probably about 25% of our restaurants today,” he said. “However, the other 75% are going to have kiosks in the next probably 30 to 60 days.”

Ghai, who raised menu prices between 8% and 10% in the last year, said he plans to cut down on worker hours, eliminate overtime, pause plans to expand his restaurant empire and add more digital kiosks.

More here: https://nypost.com/2024/04/12/busin...chisee-to-expedite-self-serve-kiosks-rollout/

So, reduced hours, reduced employees, and more electronics to replace them.

 

[TrailerHitch]

Not really. Employers aren't the reason prices are rising and rendering wage rates insufficient. The $20 dollar and hour Minimum wage increase in California represents a 25% increase seen nowhere else in the industrialized world. The reality is to accommodate the new wage rate prices have to go up or production costs have to come down in a competitive market where profit margins are already low. Here's what is going to happen as a result:

California Burger King franchisee to expedite self-serve kiosks rollout over $20 wage law​

By
Social Links forAriel Zilber
Published April 12, 2024, 10:48 a.m. ET

A businessman who owns 140 Burger King franchises in California will slash workers’ hours and expedite the rollout of self-service kiosks to cut down on labor costs in response to the state’s new $20 minimum wage.

Harshraj Ghai, who owns 180 fast-food restaurants throughout the Golden State, including Burger King, Taco Bell and Popeyes, told Business Insider last week: “We can’t move fast enough on this [rollout].”

“We have kiosks in probably about 25% of our restaurants today,” he said. “However, the other 75% are going to have kiosks in the next probably 30 to 60 days.”

Ghai, who raised menu prices between 8% and 10% in the last year, said he plans to cut down on worker hours, eliminate overtime, pause plans to expand his restaurant empire and add more digital kiosks.

More here: https://nypost.com/2024/04/12/busin...chisee-to-expedite-self-serve-kiosks-rollout/

So, reduced hours, reduced employees, and more electronics to replace them.

It still doesn't explain why profits go up, owners and CEOs income climbs astronomically, yet they can't afford to pay workers a decent wage. Greedflation pure and simple.

 

[Sean Renaud]

It will kill hundreds of businesses and cost thousands of jobs in CA but economic ignorance is the hallmark of the Democrat Party.

Those are unrelated things but there is no reason to think this will kill hundreds of businesses and cost thousands of jobs. How would that benefit the corporations? If economic ignorance is a hallmark of the Democrat Party explain how every single time we run the government things go better? I mean if we're ignorant we can ice skate uphill cuz we're too dumb to know that can't work. Meanwhile you can't even ski downhill with out cosplaying Sonny Bono.

 

[Rightguide]

It still doesn't explain why profits go up, owners and CEOs income climbs astronomically, yet they can't afford to pay workers a decent wage. Greedflation pure and simple.

Not so with Fast Food Franchise Owners who face net profit margins that are extraordinarily thin.

 

[TrailerHitch]

Those are unrelated things but there is no reason to think this will kill hundreds of businesses and cost thousands of jobs. How would that benefit the corporations? If economic ignorance is a hallmark of the Democrat Party explain how every single time we run the government things go better? I mean if we're ignorant we can ice skate uphill cuz we're too dumb to know that can't work. Meanwhile you can't even ski downhill with out cosplaying Sonny Bono.

I sure do appreciate the dems massive inflation. Food prices way up, gas prices way up, vehicle prices way up, housing and rent prices way up. Yeah you guys are doing a great job.

 

[Rightguide]

Those are unrelated things

Totally false and ridiculously uninformed.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Totally false and ridiculously uninformed.

Its not totally false. It highlights which of us is uniformed actually. We were mixing subjects. The minimum wage law and what's happening in California Fast Food markets are separate subjects. It is not my fault you can't keep up.

I sure do appreciate the dems massive inflation. Food prices way up, gas prices way up, vehicle prices way up, housing and rent prices way up. Yeah you guys are doing a great job.

The worst of that inflation was on the tail end of the Republicans and has since fallen to just slightly above where we want it to be. Too much lower would be cause for alarm. Gas prices are supposed to be up, sign of a healthy economy. I haven't checked vehicle prices since I'm unlikely to buy in the next 24 months without being somehow forced. I'll take your word for it. Housing and rent has to do with greed and nothing to do with policy.

We are doing a great job. Better than could be expected with the Right actively sabotaging the country. Flat out admitting it and wishing we'd fail.

 

[YDB95]

You are an ignorant dunce. The Minimum Wage as "originally" introduced did more to keep black people out of the job market than anything else.

According to a right-wing economist with a lousy track record on factual accuracy, and who disliked the minimum wage for other reasons. You really need to take into consideration the perspective of the person making the argument and consider just why they're making it. But then, that would require critical thinking that you clearly are not capable of.

I'm probably younger than you are, dipshit.

I doubt that, but I also don't see what that has to do with anything. I never questioned your age.

 

[MajorRewrite]

I sure do appreciate the dems massive inflation. Food prices way up, gas prices way up, vehicle prices way up, housing and rent prices way up. Yeah you guys are doing a great job.

Come on now. You know Trump added more than $7 trillion to the national debt. All that deficit spending fueled inflation. Housing and vehicle prices were soaring long before Biden took office.

The two parties are exactly alike when it comes to fiscal irresponsibility.

 

[Bray123]

It's a poorly researched headline.
European countries have much higher minimum wage laws yet there's no shortage of fast food outlets. The benefits paid to CEOs and shareholders far outweighs the wages paid to burger flippers, and despite the beliefs of some here they will not be millionaires this time next year.

 

[Bray123]

Cost of Big Mac in US: $5.58. $20 = 3.58 burgers/hr

UK = 2.5 burgers/hr
Germany & France = 2.4 burgers/hr.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-wage-gets-you-the-most-burgers-a6963926.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_M...1.20 SFr/USD, that is 6.70SFr/$5.58USD = 1.20.