Labor and the fast food industry have struck a deal to avoid a California ballot fight.
The truce caps years of political maneuvering in California as unions push to realize a long-deferred dream of organizing fast food workers. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP PhotoFast food corporations and labor unions in California have struck a deal on worker regulations, defusing a yearslong power struggle and looming ballot fight.
Language reflecting those changes was published on Monday after negotiations went down to the wire — with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office acting as a mediator — as the end of the legislative session approached. The truce caps years of political maneuvering in California as unions push to realize a long-deferred dream of organizing fast food workers. A decade after the franchise-focused “Fight for 15 and a Union” movement launched in New York, labor succeeded in boosting wages in California and other states but failed to win collective bargaining rights.
What followed was a dizzying game of cat and mouse. Fast food corporations swiftly qualified a referendum, blocking the law until the 2024 election. SEIU responded by pushing a new bill that would impose joint liability on franchise chains — a provision that had been stripped out of last year’s law in a failed attempt at mollifying industry opposition. The union also quietly secured funding in the state budget for a defunct wage regulator that could have ordered pay increases.
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