California fast food and health care workers poised to win major salary increases
Nearly 1 million California workers would win major salary increases under a pair of bills in the state Legislature SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Nearly 1 million California workers are poised to win major salary increases after labor unions flexed their collective muscle in the state's Democratic-led Legislature on Monday following a summer of high-profile strikes in the entertainment and hospitality industries. Most of the state's 500,000 fast food workers would be paid at least $20 per hour next year under a new bill aimed at ending a standoff between the industry and labor unions over wages and working conditions. About 455,000 health care workers — not doctors and nurses, but the people who do everything else at hospitals, dialysis clinics and other facilities — will see their salaries rise to at least $25 per hour over the next 10 years in a separate bill. Both proposals must first pass the state Legislature and be signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom. But the proposals have the