The link to the WSJ doesn’t say they cut 9.5K jobs. It’s the same as the one from a month ago about some pizzeria dude losing his job. So, idk wtf this article (or the other Google links, because I searched this time) are talking about. This number feels like it’s being pulled out of thin air to provide a narrative that isn’t true. In other words, unless there was a study done, it’s disinformation.
Let these companies cripple themselves all because they don’t want to pay fair wages. If they can’t be bothered to ensure humans can live, they don’t need to be in this world.
This is just bully tactics. Take the Loblaw strike/van and apply it to every one of these companies. Let corporations for once die and fail if they can’t handle the realities of this world
The people were living just fine before. Now, they don’t have a job in a state with high unemployment. Seems like the governor created a problem when things were working just fine.
These jobs were already lost before the $20 wage. If you live California, you would know this as they have been installing machines to order your own meals, while the counter was no longer there besides to pick-up food. So no this had been planned since before. They are just using an scapegoat to say this is why.
Ffr: it’s just “scapegoat.”
Fixed and thank you.
@wintermute_oregon @Fiivemacs “Just fine” is a bit of an exaggeration lol
You have a cite for the 10,000 being an exaggeration?
@wintermute_oregon Why would I? I’m not disputing the jobs lost.
then what are you disputing? People do better employed than unemployed in a high unemployment state. California has the highest unemployment rate in the country.
@wintermute_oregon While that is true, I doubt that most people in #California are doing “just fine”, the state has tons of problems from cost of living to safety.
That is outside of the minimum wage increase. That is just bad government. When I left California, there were things I missed, but it was declining rapidly when I left.
Unverifiable statistics from a fascist propaganda machine.
Meanwhile, the nation of Zimbabwe has no statutory minimum wage and the unemployment rate for 2023 was 9.1. There is no direct connection between these two things and anyone who claims so is either foolish or deceitful.
All the news media is posting the same stats.
Also I didn’t post a fascist site. I didn’t post a democrat site
So you agree with me that there’s no direct connection between minimum wage and unemployment rate.
No.
@Bongo_Stryker @wintermute_oregon
> California Loses Nearly 10,000 Fast-Food Jobs After $20 Minimum Wage Signed Last Fall
riiiiiiiiight
I CANT LIVE WITHOUT MY SHITTY HAMBERDERS OH NO HOW DARE THE WORKERS INSIST ON MAKING A LIVING WAGE
That’s heartless to want people to lose their jobs when they were happy with their wages. You’re going to chip in and help them pay their bills?
Alternatively the company could’ve just exploited their labor less and dealt with slightly lower profit margins.
But of course I should have known the poor shareholders matter so much more than the workers that just want to pay rent and eat. /s
lol. You crack me up. As the article points out it made them unprofitable. So they laid people off or closed. You can’t take a lower margin when you’re already a negative margin.
If a business that pays their executives 2000x more than their average employee can’t pay their workers a living wage it’s either too mismanaged or greedy to continue. Their thin margin is their own doing.
That sucks for the workers for sure, but fast food is not a crucial business and as long as there is demand, another business will fill the void, bringing more jobs.
lol. None of these are doing that. You think a franchise owner is making 2000x times their employees ? A McDonald’s profits about 100k. That means the demise owner has to put down 1 million to get a 10% return. That means they are making 5x an employee but carry all the risk.
You keep ranting about a living wage which by itself doesn’t mean anything. They were living in their wages before which means it was a living wage. Now they have no wages. So now they have an unlivable wage.
lol you confused executives with franchise owners, that makes your argument irrelevant.
If the franchise owners are having difficulty paying their workers either they’re not running their business effectively, or the requirements from corporate are hampering their ability to pay, or the business model is unsustainable.
Your practice of blaming the government for forcing owners of these places to pay a living wage is ridiculously out of touch. If they were already making a living wage then the law wouldn’t be required.
But I don’t expect anything different from someone in the top 5%. There’s no way you can understand that struggle.
lol you confused executives with franchise owners, that makes your argument irrelevant.
The article is talking about franchise owners. So why are you going on about some mythical executive is beyond me.
Stop saying living wage since you don’t understand the word. It doesn’t mean what you think.
I wasn’t always well to do. So I do understand the struggle. Why id rather have a job at 16 an hour rather then zero.
Good news! They got job offers 4 days later.
Edit: I posted this in the wrong place. Sorry.
Well good for them. When that other place opens, they’ll have a job making less money. I’m sure that’ll male them happy
