Bojangles CEO Joe Armario and chief brand and marketing officer Jackie Woodward join 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss their initiative to lessen the pain at the pump for some of their customers.
Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union International, said the law capped 10 years of work — including 450 strikes across the state in the past two years. The moment was almost too much for Anneisha Williams, who held back tears as she spoke during a news conference just before Newsom signed the bill. Williams, a mother of six — seven if you count her beloved dog — works at a Jack-in-the-Box restaurantFast-food workers and union activists demonstrate outside the California State Capitol to rally support for legislation to increase hourly wages, Sept. 15, 2023, in Sacramento, Calif.
California’s fast-food workers earn an average of $16.60 per hour, or just over $34,000 per year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s below the California Poverty Measure for a family of four, a statistic calculated by the Public Policy Institute of California and the Stanford Center on Poverty and Equality that accounts for housing costs and publicly-funded benefits.
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