Labor/Employment,
Government
Sep. 7, 2022
Focus on fast food workers has long history — and may have dramatic future
On Labor Day, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 257. a law that will create a Fast Food Council, under the umbrella of the Department of Industrial Relations, charged with creating labor standards for the industry.
A decade ago, the fast food industry was hit by a wave of strikes and unionization drives. Those efforts helped raise state and local minimum wages across the nation and contributed to a new wave of labor activism.
But they didn’t unionize the fast food industry. Now California has stepped in and given those workers a kind of de facto union, albeit one with employer representation. This approach of focusing on an entire sector of workers ha...
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