CA: Deal Reached to Raise Minimum Wage to $15/hour

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Unless those referenda have the exact same provisions, this won't preempt them. It may get their sponsors to withdraw them, but the issue could still be on the ballot.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Well, so much for trying to get legal workers in California agriculture.  Agriculture is largely hard labor and you're not going to find legal workers willing to do it for minimum wage.  Either otherwise legal workers are going to be getting paid off the books so as to avoid the taxman or illegal workers will be getting paid off the books so as to avoid the ICEman. Strawberries picked at $20/hour or more are not going to be competitive with berries picked elsewhere.  On the other hand, killing off the California agriculture industry would do a lot to solve California's water problems.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Well, so much for trying to get legal workers in California agriculture.  Agriculture is largely hard labor and you're not going to find legal workers willing to do it for minimum wage.  Either otherwise legal workers are going to be getting paid off the books so as to avoid the taxman or illegal workers will be getting paid off the books so as to avoid the ICEman. Strawberries picked at $20/hour or more are not going to be competitive with berries picked elsewhere.  On the other hand, killing off the California agriculture industry would do a lot to solve California's water problems.

They don't care about things like that, this is a victory, man, don't...ahem....rain on their parade.

and I didn't consider how this was going to affect me earlier.  So now I'm going to pay 10% more for strawberries in Feb and they are going to come from Argentina?

More likely Chile or Florida, but yeah.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Deadman, if you bothered to read the law, what's going on is that instead of all cash, the union has opted to negotiate for employee benefits in lieu of cash. One can argue whether the resulting package is a good one, but so long as the net effect is to make total compensation larger than the minimum wage, I see no problem.