A historic California law will give fast-food workers more say on wages, hours and working conditions. Now a coalition of business owners says they have enough signatures for a ballot measure to overturn it.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act, or AB 257, on Labor Day despiteDriving the news:, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the International Franchise Association, said Monday it had gathered over a million signatures to get the issue on the 2024 ballot.
The coalition says the law would increase food prices at restaurants by as much as 20% while creating "a massive new government bureaucracy to regulate locally owned restaurants.""Although the fast-food corporations are spending millions of dollars to lie to California voters and to silence their workers, we will not allow them to undo this massive victory," Angelica Hernandez, a McDonald's employee, said in Spanish during a news conference yesterday.
Mary Kay Henry, Service Employees International Union president, said the organization will do whatever it takes to keep the law intact, adding that they won't use traditional tactics like TV ads but will focus on grassroots mobilization. to get vital news about Latinos and Latin America, delivered to your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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