A ballot measure would increase the California minimum wage to $18, but workers already want more.
Email addressMaria Maldonado, the California Fast Food Workers Union statewide field director, leads a panel at the union membership launch event in Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2024. Photo by Jules Hotz for CalMattersProposition 32 to increase the minimum wage from $16 isn’t as far-reaching as when it was first proposed. Fast food workers are already making more, and health care employees are on track. But worker groups are already pushing for more.
One of them, the workers’ advocacy group One Fair Wage, asked the sponsor to pull it from the ballot in favor of advocating for a $20 wage; the organization’s president, Saru Jayaraman, now says Prop. 32 is needed but only a “first step.” In the Central Valley, Stockton retail worker Donna Bowman said she’s been left behind by the state’s raising wages for other industries. The 55-year-old works part-time nights at a Dollar General to supplement her Social Security payments, and said the price of gas has forced her to cut back visits to her grandchildren.
“I don’t know how, with the way things are right now, and inflation, the government expects you to live on $16 an hour.”But organizers including Ada Briceño, co-president of the Southern California hotel workers’ union UNITE HERE Local 11, say the measure is naturally popular and could turn out votes for other races.
Chamber CEO Jennifer Barrera said employers will also focus on a simple message: the threat of price hikes. Walter Schild, owner of a West Hollywood restaurant, said the policy forced him to raise the wages of servers who were making the minimum wage but received substantial extra income in tips, leaving little room to also give raises to back-of-house staff, who were making
The restaurant industry, still recovering from pandemic-induced losses and food price inflation, is likely to make up the bulk of the pushback to the measure. Many were already shaken up by the $20 minimum wage for fast food workers that started in April. Walter Schild, restaurant owner in West Hollywood
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