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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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Panera Bread exempt from following California’s new $20 minimum wage law due to relationship with Gov. Newsom: reports (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Panera Bread is exempt from following one of California’s newest laws, according to multiple reports. The new law will raise fast-food workers’ minimum wage to $20 per hour and will take effect beginning April 1.

The new law doesn’t recognize places that operate “a bakery that produces for sale on the establishment’s premises bread” as fast food, according to the law’s text.

Why the line was drawn at bread remains unclear.

However, Newsom pushed for the exemption, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. One of the primary beneficiaries of the exemption is Greg Flynn, a billionaire and longtime Newsom donor who has two dozen Panera Bread locations in California.

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I look forward to McDonald’s new fresh baked bread offerings.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In the South, McDonald's does offer scratch made biscuits. They're so good.

They're even better when the workers that make them can have at least minimum wage.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Which, in the South, is usually half of what it is in California

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be fair in California everything is double the price, plus everything also gives you cancer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This sticker is known to the state of California to cause cancer. (Puts sticker on cancer warning sticker.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How is the cost of living in comparison?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In most of South Carolina you can still find houses for $100-150k.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Which it’s 1/4-1/10 of the base price for houses in CA.