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"content": "\u003cp>On Tuesday, just hours after news that a ballot measure to raise California's minimum wage to $15 is now eligible for the statewide ballot in November, business leaders across the state vowed to fight it. But they left the door open for a compromise on the issue in the Legislature that would cost them less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa Harvey, president and CEO of the North Orange County Chamber of Commerce, said she knew the measure was coming and has been preparing to fight it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s going to force more and more businesses out of California,\" she said. \"It’s going to be impossible for employers to keep within the law and it’s going to drive more people to hire fewer employees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey said her group has an article in the quarterly newsletter set to go out soon telling members why they should oppose the measure. The chamber also has social media and email outreach plans in place to try and build support to vote it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"xyAhjsY0jaYcM4FZEhfS3WMAcOwPSTNz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to a recent law change, the ballot measure's proponents have until June 30 to withdraw the initiative from the November ballot. That could happen if the Legislature were to pass a minimum wage bill before then. Senate Bill 3, which would raise California's minimum wage to $13, has been making its way through the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey said that although her group opposes the ballot measure, it might be open to a less rapid-fire approach from state lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Were the Legislature to consider a more gradual step-up as they did from the seven to eight, and then the eight to nine and 10, we could certainly look at it,\" she said, referring to previous minimum wage increases. “I think the devil is in the details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a competing ballot initiative that's still trying to qualify for the November ballot that includes increased sick time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betty Jo Toccoli, president of the California Small Business Association, hopes the minimum wage issue will be resolved in the Legislature. She gave \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB3\">the current Senate bill\u003c/a> a 50/50 chance of passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there are those legislators that think the easy way out is to just let the initiative go through and then they won't be blamed for it, and then I think there are also legislators that recognize that they need to work on it,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toccoli said California businesses would like to see lawmakers carve out exemptions for students so they can work for lower wages. They also want to see exemptions for restaurant servers so they can still get tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest irritants in the ballot initiative for businesses is a provision for annual cost-of-living increases once the $15-an-hour mark has been reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hortencia Armendariz, director of health care outreach at SEIU-United Healthcare Workers, left room for the possibility that the sponsors could remove the ballot initiative if the Legislature were to act, but said they wouldn't do so for anything less than what their ballot initiative proposes. Their measure includes cost-of-living increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where we stand is nothing less than $15 as an increase,\" she said. \"Right now we're very happy that it qualified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholas Adcock, vice president and governmental affairs manager for Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce, said his group has yet to take an official position on the ballot measure but that it has deep concerns about minimum wage increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Economies are different from city to city,\" he said, pointing out that well over half of the businesses in Riverside have fewer than 10 employees. \"We're not talking very big profit models with huge profit margins.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riverside, according to Adcock, doesn't have the resources of larger cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles. He fears a minimum wage increase could stifle small business growth, which is still in recovery after the housing crisis that hit the area hard during the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to force them to make some very tough decisions,\" he said, speaking of small business owners. \"We want more jobs to be created.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Joseph Latichinson works full time as a security guard at a shopping plaza in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood. He makes $12 an hour -- $2 more than the \u003ca href=\"http://ktla.com/2015/12/28/californias-minimum-wage-set-to-increase-on-jan-1/\" target=\"_blank\">newly increased statewide minimum wage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Latichinson doesn't have a place to sleep -- he's homeless. 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According to the \u003ca href=\"http://calbudgetcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Budget and Policy Center\u003c/a>, which studies how budget and tax policies affect low- and middle-income Californians, nearly \u003ca href=\"http://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/new-poverty-figures-underscore-that-california-should-do-more-to-ensure-the-states-economy-works-for-everyone/\" target=\"_blank\">one in six Californians lives in poverty\u003c/a>. And kids, who make up less than one-quarter of the state's population, account for about one-third of its residents who live below the federal poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There’s money on the table and that gives us an opportunity ... we have got to invest in people.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Holly Mitchell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Figures like those are why some Democrats are pushing for renewed spending on programs that help low-income Californians survive. While Gov. 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Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, said the state's finances -- and therefore the budget debate -- are dramatically different from five or six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871376\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10871376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/HollyMitchell-800x1053.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1053\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/HollyMitchell-800x1053.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/HollyMitchell-400x527.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/HollyMitchell.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/HollyMitchell-1180x1554.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/HollyMitchell-960x1264.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. 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But she said low wages and a lack of available hours, combined with California's high cost of living, mean that many workers aren't making ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor acknowledged the state's growing inequality in his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/21/Jerry-Brown-Delivers-State-of-State\" target=\"_blank\">State of the State speech\u003c/a>, but said the state has done much to \"counteract these powerful trends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited the Jan. 1 minimum wage hike to $10 an hour, a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/faq/net/900.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">earned income tax credit \u003c/a>for the extremely poor, an expansion of paid sick leave and new health care coverage for undocumented children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in his budget proposal this year, Brown pushed back against \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/01/20/56885/raise-ca-s-minimum-wage-voters-will-likely-weigh-i/\" target=\"_blank\">two ballot measures that would raise the statewide minimum wage\u003c/a> to $15 an hour, saying they would cost the state as much as $4 billion a year by 2021 and return the state budget to annual deficits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"LqpludYfAfpcHTf0upAKkqk0ZnHBSqBY\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the state pays many in-home care workers and others the minimum wage -- meaning they qualify for state programs like Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rubs some Democrats the wrong way. Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is running for governor in 2018, has thrown his support behind both ballot measures to hike the minimum wage, arguing that by \"paying substandard wages,\" taxpayers are really hurting themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For a state and its taxpayers to subsidize twice -- by inadequate wages and then by having to provide social services on the back end, to me makes no fiscal sense and it doesn't make moral and ethical sense,\" Newsom said, adding that no one in California can live on the current minimum wage, which amounts to about $21,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson agreed, saying the\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Budget and Policy Center estimates that a single parent with two kids would actually need to make $75,000 a year, or $30 an hour, to truly afford the basics in California. She said the minimum wage does need to rise, and to be tied to inflation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871371\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10871371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has thrown his support behind both ballot measures to hike the minimum wage.\" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-1180x728.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-960x593.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has thrown his support behind both ballot measures to hike the minimum wage. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But she cautioned against using a minimum wage hike as an argument for cutting spending on public support programs like child care and health care subsidies or food assistance programs, because those programs provide an important lifeline when people do fall on hard times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think given our high cost of living, the reality is we can't raise the minimum wage to a level that's high enough to make sure that everyone can maintain a decent standard of living,\" she said. \"The minimum wage is an important tool for reducing economic hardship, but it's not the only tool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats seem confident they will be able to extract some new spending out of the famously frugal governor, saying he's come around to programs like the earned income tax credit after nudging by legislative Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He’s always cautious, so it's not unusual that he has a cautious approach for us at all,\" said Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, who chairs the Assembly's Budget Committee. \"If you notice in many of his proposals, we will come out one year with something he will not accept, and then he will come back and work to make it happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She cited the issue of homelessness, as well as help for the developmentally disabled, welfare assistance for working families and health care, as areas she wants to see focused on during this spring's budget debate. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Joseph Latichinson works full time as a security guard at a shopping plaza in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood. He makes $12 an hour -- $2 more than the \u003ca href=\"http://ktla.com/2015/12/28/californias-minimum-wage-set-to-increase-on-jan-1/\" target=\"_blank\">newly increased statewide minimum wage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Latichinson doesn't have a place to sleep -- he's homeless. He said it's impossible to make ends meet in a city as expensive as San Francisco unless you have subsidized housing or other help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I live in a shelter,\" he said. \"Even if you raise the minimum wage, if you don't lower the costs of all the other things you need to survive, then minimum wage is a joke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/248326669&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/248326669'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for the poor said Latichinson's story isn't unusual -- especially for families with kids. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://calbudgetcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Budget and Policy Center\u003c/a>, which studies how budget and tax policies affect low- and middle-income Californians, nearly \u003ca href=\"http://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/new-poverty-figures-underscore-that-california-should-do-more-to-ensure-the-states-economy-works-for-everyone/\" target=\"_blank\">one in six Californians lives in poverty\u003c/a>. And kids, who make up less than one-quarter of the state's population, account for about one-third of its residents who live below the federal poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There’s money on the table and that gives us an opportunity ... we have got to invest in people.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Holly Mitchell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Figures like those are why some Democrats are pushing for renewed spending on programs that help low-income Californians survive. While Gov. Jerry Brown has made clear that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/21/Jerry-Brown-Delivers-State-of-State\" target=\"_blank\">his priority this budget season\u003c/a> is to put as much money as possible into the state's savings account -- known as a rainy day fund -- to prepare for the next economic downturn, some lawmakers and others think the state should also be investing in things like increased welfare payments, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article52850245.html\" target=\"_blank\">child care subsidies\u003c/a> and another minimum wage hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, said the state's finances -- and therefore the budget debate -- are dramatically different from five or six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871376\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10871376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/HollyMitchell-800x1053.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1053\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/HollyMitchell-800x1053.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/HollyMitchell-400x527.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/HollyMitchell.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/HollyMitchell-1180x1554.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/HollyMitchell-960x1264.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"There was so little money we were simply trying to levy the cuts that did the least amount of harm,\" she said. \"Now there's money on the table and that gives us an opportunity ... we have got to invest in people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa Anderson, a senior policy analyst for the California Budget and Policy Center, said it's easy to think that recent economic growth has benefited all Californians equally\u003cspan class=\"s1\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the economic news we hear tends to focus on the fact that California is adding jobs faster than most states and that the unemployment rate has dropped significantly -- and those are all really good things,\" Anderson said. \"But the reality is \u003ca href=\"http://calbudgetcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/Californias-Recovery-Has-Been-Uneven-Across-the-State.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">millions of people are not benefiting in those economic gains \u003c/a>... people are struggling all over the state, poverty rates are higher in most counties than they were before the recession began, and that’s even true in parts of the state where we have seen exceptionally strong job growth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said it's not that people don't have jobs -- nearly 70 percent of families living below the federal poverty line work. But she said low wages and a lack of available hours, combined with California's high cost of living, mean that many workers aren't making ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor acknowledged the state's growing inequality in his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/21/Jerry-Brown-Delivers-State-of-State\" target=\"_blank\">State of the State speech\u003c/a>, but said the state has done much to \"counteract these powerful trends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited the Jan. 1 minimum wage hike to $10 an hour, a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/faq/net/900.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">earned income tax credit \u003c/a>for the extremely poor, an expansion of paid sick leave and new health care coverage for undocumented children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in his budget proposal this year, Brown pushed back against \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/01/20/56885/raise-ca-s-minimum-wage-voters-will-likely-weigh-i/\" target=\"_blank\">two ballot measures that would raise the statewide minimum wage\u003c/a> to $15 an hour, saying they would cost the state as much as $4 billion a year by 2021 and return the state budget to annual deficits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the state pays many in-home care workers and others the minimum wage -- meaning they qualify for state programs like Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rubs some Democrats the wrong way. Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is running for governor in 2018, has thrown his support behind both ballot measures to hike the minimum wage, arguing that by \"paying substandard wages,\" taxpayers are really hurting themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For a state and its taxpayers to subsidize twice -- by inadequate wages and then by having to provide social services on the back end, to me makes no fiscal sense and it doesn't make moral and ethical sense,\" Newsom said, adding that no one in California can live on the current minimum wage, which amounts to about $21,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson agreed, saying the\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Budget and Policy Center estimates that a single parent with two kids would actually need to make $75,000 a year, or $30 an hour, to truly afford the basics in California. She said the minimum wage does need to rise, and to be tied to inflation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871371\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10871371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has thrown his support behind both ballot measures to hike the minimum wage.\" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-1180x728.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Newsom-960x593.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>Here’s something that might surprise you. It surprised me. When I got my first paycheck for my first job in Massachusetts, the total was under $10, and that was for two weeks, 40 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My job? I was a waitress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/author/saru-jayaraman/\" target=\"_blank\">Saru Jayaraman\u003c/a>, co-founder and co-director of the \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Restaurant Opportunities Centers United\u003c/a> and director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley, says we can change that by giving all workers, including restaurant workers, one fair wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/241462661\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The restaurant industry is the second-largest and absolute fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy with over 11 million workers,” Jayaraman says. 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But restaurant workers -- many of whom were also former slaves -- didn’t organize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That history really educated us about the fact that not only is this a vestige of the feudal system, it is a legacy of slavery,\" Jayaraman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a federal law that requires employers to make sure tipped workers are making the standard minimum wage through both salary and tips, and if not, to supplement their income so that they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if that's the case, what's wrong with the minimum wage status quo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are plenty of laws on the books that really aren't enforced, and this is one of the biggest,\" Jayaraman says. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16 percent of restaurant workers make below the minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"iFqACdEJdZjdJwY7ZJood8jW5CDs9CZH\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some restaurant workers are at mid- to high-end restaurants, \"in fact 70 percent of tipped workers are women who largely work at places like IHOP and Applebee's and Olive Garden.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This overrepresentation of women leads to another tipping-related challenge: sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman says women in these jobs “suffer from the absolute worst sexual harassment of any industry in the United States.” She says it’s embedded in the culture, from customers to management. When a server is working to get the most money from tips, “you are basically encouraged to objectify yourself,\" she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some argue that the customer’s power to tip brings better service, but Jayaraman disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sadly, the studies show that tipping is correlated to workers’ skin color, hair color, eye color, breast size, gender, race,\" she says. \"And that actually there's no correlation between better service and tipping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If customers are unhappy with their service, Jayaraman says they should tell the management, similar to the recourses available in other customer service industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this industry, somehow we think that we as customers not only should have the right to implicate a worker's wages through our power of tipping, but determine whether they eat that day, whether they can feed their kids that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"RdCVHwgE2T1Gf8P94w6FwhQgWV4Ki7Wh\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman says we can avoid this mess by giving all workers an equal minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, along with six other states, has one minimum wage regardless of profession. Jayaraman and her team have researched how one minimum wage has impacted these states. Their findings are promising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as a state are faring better on every measure than the 43 states with lower wages for tipped workers,\" Jayaraman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says California and the other states -- Alaska, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington -- have higher restaurant sales per capita and higher job growth in the restaurant industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Jayaraman's mission is to get the rest of country to sign on.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>After Los Angeles passed an ordinance this summer to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, Richard LoGuercio spent the following weekend driving around a nearby city, looking for warehouses to move his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am just screwed,” said LoGuercio, owner and president of Town and Country Event Rentals in Van Nuys, which employs 450 people, more than half of whom earn between $10 to $13 an hour. Moving his shop to another county could help him escape the mandated wage increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Labor has kind of become our enemy, because it’s just so high,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the minimum wage goes up to $15 an hour, LoGuercio estimates his labor costs will increase by 62 percent. He says he fears his labor costs may rise even further because his more experienced workers will need to be paid more than a new employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in favor of (raising) the minimum wage, but not so much and not so fast,” said LoGuercio, who says he’s weighing his options for cutting labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wherever technology can help, that’s where we’re looking into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the minimum wage ordinance was approved, LoGuercio invested in a $150,000 industrial dishwasher he had been eyeing to save on utility costs. The machine will also allow him to stop paying six to eight people who earn $10 to $11 an hour washing dishes. LoGuercio expects to recoup his costs in nine months, and save a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a start,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Employers: Minimum Wage Increases Will Put More Machines in the Workplace\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employer groups opposed to raising the minimum wage say labor costs are already driving decisions to replace human labor with technology. They say higher minimum wages will accelerate automation trends in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But economists say even when jobs are replaced by technology, overall employment may not suffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Machines are already doing what humans had done for decades in supermarkets and some restaurants; shoppers can pay using self-checkout kiosks, and diners at Chili’s can order baby back ribs on a tabletop tablet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Restaurant Association says self-ordering could become more common if the minimum wage is increased to $15 statewide, a scenario proposed in competing initiatives currently trying to qualify for the 2016 November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10795510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10795510\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto.jpg\" alt=\"Jot Condie, president of the California Restaurant Association, picks up his lunch at an automated restaurant in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1272\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-768x509.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-1440x954.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-960x636.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jot Condie, president of the California Restaurant Association, picks up his lunch at an automated restaurant in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beatrice Katcher/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you’re talking about a 60 percent increase in the minimum wage over a short period of time, that absolutely is a game changer,” said Jot Condie, chief executive and president of the restaurant association. “They’re all planning” on ways to cut costs, including buying pre-chopped ingredients, sourcing food from international sources instead of local farmers, or hiring more discriminately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they haven’t adopted technology, they are absolutely looking at technology as an option, a way to cut costs,” Condie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiosks and tablets are most likely to be seen in fast-food restaurants -- but that’s not just because of labor costs, Condie said. Technology helps deliver food more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farmers May Grow What Can Be Mechanized\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to agriculture, the California Farm Bureau Federation says it’s like any other industry that employs large numbers of low-skilled workers. Growers look for “every opportunity” to cut labor costs, and technology is part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan Little, director of employment policy at the farm bureau, said for the past 25 years more and more agricultural products -– including tomatoes, raisins and nuts -– are being harvested by machine. As labor costs go up, Little said, farmers decide what to grow partly on how easily production can be mechanized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6sxbuv8q9BkiV30DzUu1qqAK3TWv4iTg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot more interest in growing almonds, walnuts, pistachios, other types of tree nuts that can be harvested with a crew of four or five people,” said Little, explaining that machines can shake nuts from a tree, without harming color or texture. Not so for a strawberry or melons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said if there were a statewide $15 minimum wage, farming would likely become more mechanized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d see more interest in developing commodities that can be machine harvested, or (growers) changing to commodities that lend themselves to machine harvesting,” Little said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When Automation Happens, It May Not Be So Bad\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent economic research suggests that job loss does occur following minimum wage increases, but the losses are evened out by other job gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago-area economists who analyzed employment data between 1999 and 2009 found for every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage, low-wage jobs that involve routine cognitive tasks -– such as cashiers -- declined 1.5 percent a year or two after the hike. The researchers inferred the decline was caused by technology replacing workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the same time, there was this employment growth in jobs that are not easily replaced by technology, “ said Brian Phelan, assistant professor of economics at the Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Phelan says the kinds of increases being proposed and implemented in California could accelerate automation in the workplace. The balance between job losses and gains he found in more modest minimum wage increases may not hold in other wage hike scenarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a different economist says the falling price of technology, not minimum wage increases, is a more significant driver of automation in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Increasing the minimum wage to $15 isn’t going to change very much at all,” said Michael Reich, economics professor and director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It (would) be a little bump on the road compared to the big effects of the cheapening price of technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich said technological substitution in the workplace is not necessarily a net job destroyer. A firm could expand and hire more workers. Or jobs may reappear in other industries. In restaurants, former cashiers could be trained as cooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means the job has been displaced, but not necessarily the worker,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparing for the Los Angeles Minimum Wage Increase\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Town and Country Event Rentals in Los Angeles, owner LoGuercio is still crunching numbers about how his manual-labor heavy, service-oriented business will account for the $15 wage increase by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could find robots … to load trucks, I would do that,” LoGuercio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10795556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10795556\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio.jpg\" alt=\"Pauline Bartolone for CALmatters\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1397\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio-400x291.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio-800x582.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio-768x559.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio-1440x1048.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio-1180x859.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio-960x699.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard LoGuercio, president and owner of Town & Country Event Rentals, poses in his warehouse in Los Angeles. LoGuercio employs 450 people, more than half of whom earn between $10 and $13 an hour. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He hasn’t decided what he’ll do with the workers who used to be dishwashers, but he may move them to other jobs within the company. He’s also looking into an online ordering system, which would eliminate the need for one or two office positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But LoGuercio says he has acquired one new “expensive” worker because of Los Angeles’ wage increase: a chief financial officer. While he says he considers himself an experienced entrepreneur, when it comes to figuring out the variables created by the upcoming wage increase, he needs help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not that smart,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After Los Angeles passed an ordinance this summer to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, Richard LoGuercio spent the following weekend driving around a nearby city, looking for warehouses to move his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am just screwed,” said LoGuercio, owner and president of Town and Country Event Rentals in Van Nuys, which employs 450 people, more than half of whom earn between $10 to $13 an hour. Moving his shop to another county could help him escape the mandated wage increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Labor has kind of become our enemy, because it’s just so high,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the minimum wage goes up to $15 an hour, LoGuercio estimates his labor costs will increase by 62 percent. He says he fears his labor costs may rise even further because his more experienced workers will need to be paid more than a new employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in favor of (raising) the minimum wage, but not so much and not so fast,” said LoGuercio, who says he’s weighing his options for cutting labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wherever technology can help, that’s where we’re looking into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the minimum wage ordinance was approved, LoGuercio invested in a $150,000 industrial dishwasher he had been eyeing to save on utility costs. The machine will also allow him to stop paying six to eight people who earn $10 to $11 an hour washing dishes. LoGuercio expects to recoup his costs in nine months, and save a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a start,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Employers: Minimum Wage Increases Will Put More Machines in the Workplace\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employer groups opposed to raising the minimum wage say labor costs are already driving decisions to replace human labor with technology. They say higher minimum wages will accelerate automation trends in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But economists say even when jobs are replaced by technology, overall employment may not suffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Machines are already doing what humans had done for decades in supermarkets and some restaurants; shoppers can pay using self-checkout kiosks, and diners at Chili’s can order baby back ribs on a tabletop tablet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Restaurant Association says self-ordering could become more common if the minimum wage is increased to $15 statewide, a scenario proposed in competing initiatives currently trying to qualify for the 2016 November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10795510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10795510\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto.jpg\" alt=\"Jot Condie, president of the California Restaurant Association, picks up his lunch at an automated restaurant in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1272\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-768x509.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-1440x954.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/CondieResto-960x636.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jot Condie, president of the California Restaurant Association, picks up his lunch at an automated restaurant in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beatrice Katcher/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you’re talking about a 60 percent increase in the minimum wage over a short period of time, that absolutely is a game changer,” said Jot Condie, chief executive and president of the restaurant association. “They’re all planning” on ways to cut costs, including buying pre-chopped ingredients, sourcing food from international sources instead of local farmers, or hiring more discriminately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they haven’t adopted technology, they are absolutely looking at technology as an option, a way to cut costs,” Condie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiosks and tablets are most likely to be seen in fast-food restaurants -- but that’s not just because of labor costs, Condie said. Technology helps deliver food more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farmers May Grow What Can Be Mechanized\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to agriculture, the California Farm Bureau Federation says it’s like any other industry that employs large numbers of low-skilled workers. Growers look for “every opportunity” to cut labor costs, and technology is part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan Little, director of employment policy at the farm bureau, said for the past 25 years more and more agricultural products -– including tomatoes, raisins and nuts -– are being harvested by machine. As labor costs go up, Little said, farmers decide what to grow partly on how easily production can be mechanized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot more interest in growing almonds, walnuts, pistachios, other types of tree nuts that can be harvested with a crew of four or five people,” said Little, explaining that machines can shake nuts from a tree, without harming color or texture. Not so for a strawberry or melons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said if there were a statewide $15 minimum wage, farming would likely become more mechanized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d see more interest in developing commodities that can be machine harvested, or (growers) changing to commodities that lend themselves to machine harvesting,” Little said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When Automation Happens, It May Not Be So Bad\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent economic research suggests that job loss does occur following minimum wage increases, but the losses are evened out by other job gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago-area economists who analyzed employment data between 1999 and 2009 found for every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage, low-wage jobs that involve routine cognitive tasks -– such as cashiers -- declined 1.5 percent a year or two after the hike. The researchers inferred the decline was caused by technology replacing workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the same time, there was this employment growth in jobs that are not easily replaced by technology, “ said Brian Phelan, assistant professor of economics at the Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Phelan says the kinds of increases being proposed and implemented in California could accelerate automation in the workplace. The balance between job losses and gains he found in more modest minimum wage increases may not hold in other wage hike scenarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a different economist says the falling price of technology, not minimum wage increases, is a more significant driver of automation in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Increasing the minimum wage to $15 isn’t going to change very much at all,” said Michael Reich, economics professor and director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It (would) be a little bump on the road compared to the big effects of the cheapening price of technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich said technological substitution in the workplace is not necessarily a net job destroyer. A firm could expand and hire more workers. Or jobs may reappear in other industries. In restaurants, former cashiers could be trained as cooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means the job has been displaced, but not necessarily the worker,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparing for the Los Angeles Minimum Wage Increase\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Town and Country Event Rentals in Los Angeles, owner LoGuercio is still crunching numbers about how his manual-labor heavy, service-oriented business will account for the $15 wage increase by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could find robots … to load trucks, I would do that,” LoGuercio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10795556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10795556\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio.jpg\" alt=\"Pauline Bartolone for CALmatters\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1397\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio-400x291.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio-800x582.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio-768x559.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio-1440x1048.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio-1180x859.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LoGuercio-960x699.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard LoGuercio, president and owner of Town & Country Event Rentals, poses in his warehouse in Los Angeles. LoGuercio employs 450 people, more than half of whom earn between $10 and $13 an hour. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He hasn’t decided what he’ll do with the workers who used to be dishwashers, but he may move them to other jobs within the company. He’s also looking into an online ordering system, which would eliminate the need for one or two office positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But LoGuercio says he has acquired one new “expensive” worker because of Los Angeles’ wage increase: a chief financial officer. While he says he considers himself an experienced entrepreneur, when it comes to figuring out the variables created by the upcoming wage increase, he needs help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Lydia Flores saves gas money by taking a two-hour train ride to and from her cashier job at a Los Angeles supermarket. She tells her teenage sons about another way the family can save on the cost of eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eat it slow,” she tells them. “They gotta savor their eggs now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To stretch her dollars, Flores gets some food from churches. Her sons wear their uncle’s hand-me-downs. A couple of times a year, she’ll ask a local nonprofit to help pay a utility bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You pay one bill and leave the other. And then, you’ll get the disconnection notice, and then you pay that bill, and then leave another bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/235587324\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earning $12.88 an hour, Flores supports her two sons on roughly $2,000 a month or less after taxes. That includes a Social Security check her younger son receives because of a developmental disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s stories like hers, of people who work full time and still struggle to meet basic needs, that have fueled groups such as \u003ca href=\"http://fightfor15.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Fight for $15\u003c/a> and the movement to raise wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California cities have heard their call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California cities lead the charge to raise minimum wage\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last three years, 15 of the 30 cities and counties nationwide that have voted to increase the minimum wage have been in California, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/topic/minimum-wage-living-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley Labor Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is a state that has made it very clear to cities and counties that they have the authority to pass a higher minimum wage,” said Laura Huizar, staff attorney for the National Employment Law Project, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that publishes research about low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10777889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10777889\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Lydia Flores rallies with her union, UFCW, for a new contract. Flores supports two teenage sons on $12.88 an hour as a cashier in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-1440x950.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-960x633.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia Flores rallies with her union, UFCW, for a new contract. Flores supports two teenage sons on $12.88 an hour as a cashier in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huizar said some states, like Georgia and Texas, prohibit localities from passing minimum wage laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other experts say a mix of politics and economics explain why half of the recent local increases have happened through California regional governments. Andrew Busch of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College said it’s the left-leaning politics and high cost of living in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policymakers or voters are more receptive to an increased minimum wage because they see that it just costs a lot more to live in those places,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the Fight for $15 movement say getting traction on the city level hasn’t necessarily been the focus of their campaign. It is one of many groups that organized to raise the minimum wage in Los Angeles. But leaders say their demonstrations have influenced New York State policymakers and employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all types of ways to get there, and I don’t think that the workers really care how they get there. They care that they have $15 so they can get out of poverty,” said Kendall Fells, organizing director for Fight for $15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"7m2qiWIcCYdLSSCPAxEcFGQRyArAf0rq\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, actions by the California cities could prove influential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California raised its minimum wage from $8 to $9 an hour in July 2014. The state will raise it again to $10 an hour in January 2016. Large cities in the Los Angeles and San Francisco metro areas have passed ordinances to raise their minimum wages to up to $15 an hour by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busch said if enough cities adopt an increase, there may be a “psychological momentum” to adopt similar increases statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They might begin to make the argument that there are too many cities at risk of losing jobs to competitor cities, and the playing field needs to be leveled out,” Busch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cities' minimum wage movements may influence state actions\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who authored a bill this year to raise the minimum wage statewide to $13 with future adjustments for inflation, said higher wages in cities create an opportunity for state policy to make the marketplace fairer for competing businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Raising our state minimum wage to be a little closer to some of these higher city and county minimum wages would do that,” Leno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, Leno said, if cities show that local wage increases don’t “kill jobs,” that would help proponents of the statewide measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10777891\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10777891\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) authored a bill this year to raise the state's minimum wage to $13. It stalled in committee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-1440x953.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-960x636.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) authored a bill this year to raise the state's minimum wage to $13. It stalled in committee. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the wave of new local wage ordinances has California employers concerned. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbrt.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The California Business Roundtable\u003c/a> hasn’t yet taken a stance on the statewide wage proposals, and says its members don’t employ many low-wage workers. But Robert Lapsley, president of the roundtable, said minimum wage decisions should happen at the state Capitol, with regional economic differences taken into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How do you make good public policy if you’re doing it solely within one city when it’s going to have ripple effects throughout the entire region?” Lapsley asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While proponents of this year’s statewide legislation want to raise the minimum wage so that families of three or four people stay out of poverty, Lapsley argued that’s something the minimum wage was never intended to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the wrong debate,” he said. “It’s really about we have to be growing our jobs so that we have middle-class jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Lapsley said the business community wants to see the manufacturing sector grow to create more opportunities for Californians to transition out of lower-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $13 minimum wage bill stalled in committee this year, but Leno said he will reignite the push in 2016. The wave of cities raising their minimum wages wasn’t the impetus for his effort, Leno said, but the local efforts “inspire and encourage” the statewide legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a couple of 2016 ballot proposals would set the state minimum wage at $15 an hour, one by 2020 and the other by 2021. Neither has yet qualified for the ballot. Busch said efforts to raise the wage at the local level may give those initiatives momentum, but backers will still need to show voters that the increase wouldn’t hurt the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That $15 minimum wage in Los Angeles couldn’t come soon enough for Flores, who works in an area supermarket. When her pay is increased, she said, she could buy her two sons new clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Couldn’t they raise it right now?\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s stories like hers, of people who work full time and still struggle to meet basic needs, that have fueled groups such as \u003ca href=\"http://fightfor15.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Fight for $15\u003c/a> and the movement to raise wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California cities have heard their call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California cities lead the charge to raise minimum wage\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last three years, 15 of the 30 cities and counties nationwide that have voted to increase the minimum wage have been in California, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/topic/minimum-wage-living-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley Labor Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is a state that has made it very clear to cities and counties that they have the authority to pass a higher minimum wage,” said Laura Huizar, staff attorney for the National Employment Law Project, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that publishes research about low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10777889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10777889\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Lydia Flores rallies with her union, UFCW, for a new contract. Flores supports two teenage sons on $12.88 an hour as a cashier in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-1440x950.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LydiaFlores-960x633.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia Flores rallies with her union, UFCW, for a new contract. Flores supports two teenage sons on $12.88 an hour as a cashier in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huizar said some states, like Georgia and Texas, prohibit localities from passing minimum wage laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other experts say a mix of politics and economics explain why half of the recent local increases have happened through California regional governments. Andrew Busch of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College said it’s the left-leaning politics and high cost of living in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policymakers or voters are more receptive to an increased minimum wage because they see that it just costs a lot more to live in those places,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the Fight for $15 movement say getting traction on the city level hasn’t necessarily been the focus of their campaign. It is one of many groups that organized to raise the minimum wage in Los Angeles. But leaders say their demonstrations have influenced New York State policymakers and employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all types of ways to get there, and I don’t think that the workers really care how they get there. They care that they have $15 so they can get out of poverty,” said Kendall Fells, organizing director for Fight for $15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, actions by the California cities could prove influential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California raised its minimum wage from $8 to $9 an hour in July 2014. The state will raise it again to $10 an hour in January 2016. Large cities in the Los Angeles and San Francisco metro areas have passed ordinances to raise their minimum wages to up to $15 an hour by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busch said if enough cities adopt an increase, there may be a “psychological momentum” to adopt similar increases statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They might begin to make the argument that there are too many cities at risk of losing jobs to competitor cities, and the playing field needs to be leveled out,” Busch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cities' minimum wage movements may influence state actions\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who authored a bill this year to raise the minimum wage statewide to $13 with future adjustments for inflation, said higher wages in cities create an opportunity for state policy to make the marketplace fairer for competing businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Raising our state minimum wage to be a little closer to some of these higher city and county minimum wages would do that,” Leno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, Leno said, if cities show that local wage increases don’t “kill jobs,” that would help proponents of the statewide measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10777891\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10777891\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) authored a bill this year to raise the state's minimum wage to $13. It stalled in committee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-1440x953.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/MarkLeno-960x636.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) authored a bill this year to raise the state's minimum wage to $13. It stalled in committee. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the wave of new local wage ordinances has California employers concerned. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbrt.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The California Business Roundtable\u003c/a> hasn’t yet taken a stance on the statewide wage proposals, and says its members don’t employ many low-wage workers. But Robert Lapsley, president of the roundtable, said minimum wage decisions should happen at the state Capitol, with regional economic differences taken into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How do you make good public policy if you’re doing it solely within one city when it’s going to have ripple effects throughout the entire region?” Lapsley asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While proponents of this year’s statewide legislation want to raise the minimum wage so that families of three or four people stay out of poverty, Lapsley argued that’s something the minimum wage was never intended to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the wrong debate,” he said. “It’s really about we have to be growing our jobs so that we have middle-class jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Lapsley said the business community wants to see the manufacturing sector grow to create more opportunities for Californians to transition out of lower-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $13 minimum wage bill stalled in committee this year, but Leno said he will reignite the push in 2016. The wave of cities raising their minimum wages wasn’t the impetus for his effort, Leno said, but the local efforts “inspire and encourage” the statewide legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a couple of 2016 ballot proposals would set the state minimum wage at $15 an hour, one by 2020 and the other by 2021. Neither has yet qualified for the ballot. Busch said efforts to raise the wage at the local level may give those initiatives momentum, but backers will still need to show voters that the increase wouldn’t hurt the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That $15 minimum wage in Los Angeles couldn’t come soon enough for Flores, who works in an area supermarket. When her pay is increased, she said, she could buy her two sons new clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Andrew Hoffman wants to end tipping as we know it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman is co-owner of Comal, a Mexican restaurant in downtown Berkeley. About a year ago, he followed in the footsteps of other local restaurants and replaced tips with a 20 percent service charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think tipping is an unhealthy practice,” Hoffman says. “I would be in favor of anything that got restaurants out of that model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has been a lot of criticism in recent years about the tip system. One of the biggest complaints is that it allows for discrimination. \u003ca href=\"http://www.tippingresearch.com/uploads/customer_racial_discrimination10-30-06.pdf\">Studies\u003c/a> have shown, for example, that black waiters \u003ca href=\"http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/racism-black-restaurant-waiters-service-industry-servers-get-smaller-tips-90121\">make less\u003c/a> than white waiters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman and other no-tip restaurant owners argue that the tipping model creates bad dynamics in a restaurant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman says you get mercenary servers -- waiters gunning for their own tips instead of working together. And because tips go to the service staff, they often end up making far more money than the kitchen staff or even managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'If servers are making the most money in the building, something is wrong with the current restaurant compensation model.'\u003ccite>Andrew Hoffman\u003cbr>Comal co-owner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hoffman says, “If servers are making the most money in the building, something is wrong with the current restaurant compensation model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman has faulted the tip system for years. But what compelled him to finally ditch it wasn't any of the reasons above. Instead he says, it was the rising minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year Berkeley \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/17/berkeley-council-puts-off-vote-on-19-minimum-wage\"> voted to increase its minimum wage\u003c/a> to $12.53 by October 2016, and there has been talk of continuing to raise it in the coming years. That means restaurants will need to pay everyone more, including waiters. Hoffman says the service charge helps him balance out pay because, unlike with tips, he can divide it among the whole staff. He expects more restaurants will adopt this model to cover the labor costs of a higher minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Replacing tips with a service charge may sound good if you are working in the kitchen, but it's a scary proposition for career waitstaff like Kim Schooling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schooling has waited tables for 20 years at different places around the Bay Area. She worries that, with the new model, waiters will make less and less, until they can no longer earn a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schooling says, “We have no idea what our income could potentially look like if this shift takes place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty comes from the one big difference between a tip and a service charge. By law, tips go straight to the waitstaff. That is because restaurants have a history of stealing them. But with a service charge, owners get the money and can do whatever they want with it. Schooling feels like restaurateurs are using the rising minimum wage as an excuse to get their hands on tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have no idea what our income could potentially look like if this shift takes place.'\u003ccite>Kim Schooling\u003cbr>Waiter\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It seems oddly opportunistic,” Schooling says. “Like oh, our back is up against the wall with the wage increases, so we will use this income and we'll dress it up in this pretty dress called fairness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The no-tip movement is growing in the Bay Area and in \u003ca href=\"http://www.eater.com/2015/10/14/9532729/danny-meyer-drops-tipping-chefs-restaurateurs-reactions\"> major cities like New York\u003c/a>. Many are also citing minimum wage increases as the main motivating factor. But for some local restaurants, the experiment has backfired so badly they have had to reinstate tipping. Owners of Bar Agricole in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2015/10/14/bar-agricole-and-trou-normand-nix-tipless-models/#photo-698141\">reportedly brought tips back\u003c/a> to keep staff from quitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sedric Pieretti thought he would have to quit when his restaurant went no-tip. He is a bartender at Comal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My initial reaction was that I was going to have to find a new job,” Pieretti says. “I thought I wasn't going to make as much money.” But Pieretti has since changed his mind, and is now an advocate for the service charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pieretti says he likes the stability and that his compensation is determined by his boss, not customers. He also says he feels like a service charge legitimizes his career as a bartender. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-city-council/\">Berkeley City Council\u003c/a> voted late Tuesday night to hold off on a decision about a new minimum wage schedule, proposed by the city’s Labor Commission, that could \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/09/14/berkeley-council-to-consider-19-minimum-wage/\">increase the wage to $19\u003c/a> by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven council members voted in favor of the postponement, while \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/max-anderson/\">Councilman Max Anderson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/jesse-arreguin/\">Councilman Jesse Arreguín\u003c/a> abstained, after more than an hour of public comment. Approximately 31 people told the council that workers cannot afford to wait for an increase, and about a dozen local business owners or their supporters asked the city to take more time to make sure their position is included in any decision to change the existing minimum wage law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-minimum-wage/\">Read previous coverage of the minimum wage debate in Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council voted last year to increase the minimum wage annually to $12.53 by October 2016. The Labor Commission asked the council to take a more aggressive approach, raising the minimum wage to $13 at that time, followed by \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/09/14/berkeley-council-to-consider-19-minimum-wage/\">annual increases through 2020 up to $19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/labor-commission/\">Labor Commission\u003c/a> has recommended the inclusion of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2015-09-15-Item-59a-Revisions-to-Minimum-Wage.pdf\">paid sick leave and other factors in its proposal\u003c/a> to make Berkeley’s minimum wage a living wage for workers who are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living in the Bay Area. \u003cspan id=\"more-202413\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for increasing the minimum wage said nearly all cities that have increased it have seen corresponding increases in consumer spending that have helped boost the economy overall. Some pointed out that a worker making minimum wage in Berkeley would have to work 63 hours to afford “Berkeley rents.” One speaker said some Berkeley rents have increased $400-$1,000 in the past year, forcing local residents to crowd six to eight tenants into units to afford them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cost of living simply exceeds what a minimum wage job can get you,” Andy Katz told the council. “We need to do better in Berkeley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicky Gonzalez Yuen told the council about a woman he knows who is working four separate jobs to afford to live in a 60-square-foot room in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s time for us to end that system,” he said. “I think it’s time for us to be Berkeley, and not be the followers who tag along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the minimum wage is set at $10, and is scheduled to \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/06/27/berkeley-sets-new-minimum-wage-to-reach-12-53-by-2016/\">increase to $11 in October\u003c/a>, as per the ordinance adopted by the council last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business owners and their supporters said they are \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/09/14/berkeley-council-to-consider-19-minimum-wage/\">still grappling to get a handle on those increases\u003c/a>, as well as a new state law requiring paid sick leave for workers. 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Advocates for the business community countered that Berkeley’s small businesses are unique and should receive more consideration than, for example, larger corporate enterprises that can more easily absorb wage increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\">\n\u003cp>According to the city manager, 60 percent of the businesses in Berkeley are small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_202299\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 708px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-202299 size-full\" src=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Screen-Shot-2015-09-14-at-3.50.44-PM.png\" alt=\"A comparison of current minimum wage laws in the Bay Area. (See page 16 of the staff report for more detail.) Source: City of Berkeley\" width=\"708\" height=\"622\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A comparison of current minimum wage laws in the Bay Area. Source: City of Berkeley\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the council voted to revisit the minimum wage proposal from the Labor Commission in a special meeting Nov. 10. The council pledged to hear the issue earlier in the evening so more members of the public could testify. Tuesday night’s discussion began at about 9:50 p.m., and community members testified repeatedly that \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWn809kr4Ko\">dozens who had come to speak\u003c/a> had gone home due to the lateness of the hour and responsibilities related to their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/mayor-tom-bates/\">Mayor Tom Bates\u003c/a> asked staff to come back Nov. 10 with language related to a sick leave ordinance. 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Councilman Anderson said business owners should have participated in the Labor Commission’s discussions over the past year rather than waiting until Tuesday night to ask for a different process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the business community have said they did not feel heard during the Labor Commission’s process, due to the makeup of that panel, which they said does not include any local business owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_202292\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-202292 size-full\" src=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Screen-Shot-2015-09-14-at-2.36.26-PM.png\" alt=\"The Labor Commission minimum wage proposal, compared to those of several Bay Area cities. Source: City of Berkeley\" width=\"720\" height=\"543\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Labor Commission wage proposal, compared to those of several Bay Area cities. Source: City of Berkeley\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/lori-droste/\">Councilwoman Lori Droste\u003c/a> and others said more conversation was needed before an informed decision could be made. She said she would like to hear more input from the business community regarding the proposal. Droste said asking for more analysis was a legitimate request, not a delay tactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not punting it,” she told the crowd. “I really think this merits significant dialogue. 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La mayor parte – más del 80 por ciento – los lleva un pequeño equipo de investigadores y abogados de la Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE por sus siglas en inglés: División de Implementación de Normas Laborales) del Comisionado Laboral de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10611475\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10611475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Defensores – en su mayoría – de una propuesta por aumentar el salario mínimo en Los Ángeles a $15 la hora para el 2020 de manera rutinaria atiborran la cámara del Consejo de la Ciudad para presenciar un voto importante.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071-400x254.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defensores – en su mayoría – de una propuesta por aumentar el salario mínimo en Los Ángeles a $15 la hora para el 2020 de manera rutinaria atiborran la cámara del Consejo de la Ciudad para presenciar un voto importante. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Los Ángeles es la capital de robo salarial del país”, dice abogada de DLSE, Julia Figueira-McDonough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La oficina de Figueira-McDonough atiende unas 5.000 quejas por robo salarial al año, en particular derivadas de las industrias que emplean altos números de trabajadores inmigrantes, pero que con frecuencia les pagan menos del salario mínimo actual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sencillamente, Los Ángeles es una ciudad mucho más grande con una mayor variedad de industrias de poca remuneración: la confección, la conserjería, la construcción”, explica Figueira-McDonough. “Muchas industrias que dependen de lo que tendría que ser mano de obra pagada al salario mínimo, pero no pagan ni el mínimo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando entra en vigor el aumento salarial en Los Ángeles en junio, también se abrirá una nueva División de Implementación de Salarios de la ciudad. 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Los negocios que no cumplen con la ley podrán verse con multas de miles de dólares y perder sus licencias de operación.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'L.A. es la capital de robo salarial del país'\u003ccite>Julia Figueira-McDonough\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pero son muchos los empleadores que temen que estas reglas estrictas podrían ser explotados por las personas que presentan reclamos falsos de robo de salarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se van a ver abogados y defensores que utilizarán esta estructura de implementación que en este momento se ve muy apto para el abuso”, dice Rubén González, de la Cámara de Comercio de Los Ángeles Metropolitana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Le garantizo que en aquellas empresas donde quieren entrar los sindicatos, van a surgir de repente numerosas quejas salariales que podrán ser reclamos falsos”, asevera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Vallecillo dice que sus reclamos son de verdad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallecillo se encuentra entre un grupo de trabajadores en una empresa de almacenamiento cerca de los puertos de Los Ángeles que le han entablado juicio contra su empleador por presunto robo de salarios. Explica Vallecillo que varios de los trabajadores inmigrantes del grupo no tienen documentos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Algunos de nuestros trabajadores indocumentados han estado trabajando allí 10, 15 años, y tenían miedo de unirse al grupo por la represalia de ser despedidos”, dice Vallecillo. “Además, siguen con miedo hasta el día de hoy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10611470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Activistas laborales celebran el 13 de junio del 2015 en lo que el alcalde de Los Ángeles, Eric Garcetti, firma legislación a partir de una ordenanza que eleva el salario mínimo a $15 para el 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10611470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activistas laborales celebran el 13 de junio del 2015 en lo que el alcalde de Los Ángeles, Eric Garcetti, firma legislación a partir de una ordenanza que eleva el salario mínimo a $15 para el 2020. \u003ccite>(MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Si la ciudad ya contara con una oficina de implementación de la ley salarial operante, explica, tal vez él y sus colegas no tendrían que haber entablado juicio contra su empleador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con todo, el ganar un juicio contra un empleador que no paga el salario legal no es garantía que los trabajadores reciban el dinero que se les debe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según un informe del comisionado estatal de trabajo, sólo un 15 por ciento de las víctimas del robo de salarios que ganan sus casos reciben recompensa. Los juicios pueden demorarse por la presentación de apelaciones. Un negocio podría cerrarse y volver a abrir con otro nombre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hoy podría llamarse Magic Carwash y mañana llamarse Magic Carwash Inc.,” explica Flor Rodríguez de la organización sin fines de lucro, Clean Carwash Campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodríguez cuenta que esto es lo que le ocurrió hace unos años a un grupo de trabajadores de lavado de autos en Los Ángeles. La organización ayudó a estos trabajadores, todos inmigrantes, y con el tiempo llegaron a ganar un juicio de varios miles de dólares por pérdida salarial contra su antiguo empleador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Elaboramos un caso ante el departamento de trabajo, pero no hemos recibido dinero del caso”, comenta Rodríguez. “A los trabajadores que participaron en el caso, el dueño comenzó a darles cada vez menos horas de trabajo. Entonces, la represalia se dio rápidamente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislación propuesta por el Presidente pro Tem del Senado Estatal, Kevin de León (demócrata por Los Ángeles), podría invertir esta tendencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si la legislación se aprueba, los empleadores renegados tendrían que pagar un bono para garantizar el pago de salarios robados o arriesgar que se les imponga embargos a las propiedades y otras sanciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California tiene la séptima economía más grande del mundo, y a lo largo de la historia del estado, los inmigrantes han contribuido mucho al desarrollo de esta prosperidad. Hoy, una de cada tres personas trabajadoras en California es inmigrante – proporción que ha crecido en las últimas décadas. Nuestro estado está conformado por estos trabajadores y emprendedores – 6 millones de personas que han encontrado empleo en el Estado Dorado. En nuestra serie “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">Transformación migrante,\u003c/a>” KQED y The California Report exploran el impacto que surten los inmigrantes, los retos que enfrentan y las políticas que les afectan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nadie quiere un aumento en el costo de la mano de obra salvo que alguien les ponga mano al fuego y se lo obliguen”, dice Tia Koonse, del UCLA Labor Center, co-autora del informe sobre el impacto que surte el robo de salarios en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De los aproximadamente 700 mil trabajadores que bajo la nueva ordenanza del salario mínimo podrían ver un aumento en su paga, unos 6 de cada 10 no nacieron en los Estados Unidos, según Daniel Fleming, director de la Economic Roundtable, un grupo de investigación de políticas gubernamentales en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los trabajadores inmigrantes con manejo limitado del inglés o que no conocen las leyes laborales pueden estar en peligro de ser explotados, dicen los defensores, pero los más vulnerables suelen ser los indocumentados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es en realidad ilegal pagar menos del salario mínimo”, dice Koonse. “Y hay que pagar a los trabajadores indocumentados, quienes califican para recibir todos y cada uno de los derechos al salario y el horario de los que gozan sus contrapartes documentados”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Oficina del Fiscal de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles lleva algunos de los temas de quejas salariales y laborales, pero sólo una fracción de ellas. La mayor parte – más del 80 por ciento – los lleva un pequeño equipo de investigadores y abogados de la Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE por sus siglas en inglés: División de Implementación de Normas Laborales) del Comisionado Laboral de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10611475\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10611475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Defensores – en su mayoría – de una propuesta por aumentar el salario mínimo en Los Ángeles a $15 la hora para el 2020 de manera rutinaria atiborran la cámara del Consejo de la Ciudad para presenciar un voto importante.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071-400x254.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defensores – en su mayoría – de una propuesta por aumentar el salario mínimo en Los Ángeles a $15 la hora para el 2020 de manera rutinaria atiborran la cámara del Consejo de la Ciudad para presenciar un voto importante. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Los Ángeles es la capital de robo salarial del país”, dice abogada de DLSE, Julia Figueira-McDonough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La oficina de Figueira-McDonough atiende unas 5.000 quejas por robo salarial al año, en particular derivadas de las industrias que emplean altos números de trabajadores inmigrantes, pero que con frecuencia les pagan menos del salario mínimo actual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sencillamente, Los Ángeles es una ciudad mucho más grande con una mayor variedad de industrias de poca remuneración: la confección, la conserjería, la construcción”, explica Figueira-McDonough. “Muchas industrias que dependen de lo que tendría que ser mano de obra pagada al salario mínimo, pero no pagan ni el mínimo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando entra en vigor el aumento salarial en Los Ángeles en junio, también se abrirá una nueva División de Implementación de Salarios de la ciudad. Seguirá el modelo de la división de implementación de salarios de San Francisco, donde trabajan unos seis investigadores de robo salarial a tiempo completo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Ángeles comenzará con cinco investigadores. Koonse replica que esto no es suficiente. Pero que no es un mal comienzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nosotros tenemos como nueve veces el número de trabajadores de bajos ingresos que San Francisco, entonces claramente, con contratar a cinco investigadores no se va a lograr el nivel de implementación al que llega San Francisco”, explica Koonse. “No obstante, es mejor que lo que ocurre a nivel estatal”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El objetivo de Los Ángeles es de ampliar el personal de la oficina de implementación de las leyes salariales y laborales a unos 40 empleados para el año 2020, cuando entra en vigor el salario de $15 la hora. Los negocios que no cumplen con la ley podrán verse con multas de miles de dólares y perder sus licencias de operación.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'L.A. es la capital de robo salarial del país'\u003ccite>Julia Figueira-McDonough\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pero son muchos los empleadores que temen que estas reglas estrictas podrían ser explotados por las personas que presentan reclamos falsos de robo de salarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se van a ver abogados y defensores que utilizarán esta estructura de implementación que en este momento se ve muy apto para el abuso”, dice Rubén González, de la Cámara de Comercio de Los Ángeles Metropolitana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Le garantizo que en aquellas empresas donde quieren entrar los sindicatos, van a surgir de repente numerosas quejas salariales que podrán ser reclamos falsos”, asevera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Vallecillo dice que sus reclamos son de verdad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallecillo se encuentra entre un grupo de trabajadores en una empresa de almacenamiento cerca de los puertos de Los Ángeles que le han entablado juicio contra su empleador por presunto robo de salarios. Explica Vallecillo que varios de los trabajadores inmigrantes del grupo no tienen documentos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Algunos de nuestros trabajadores indocumentados han estado trabajando allí 10, 15 años, y tenían miedo de unirse al grupo por la represalia de ser despedidos”, dice Vallecillo. “Además, siguen con miedo hasta el día de hoy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10611470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Activistas laborales celebran el 13 de junio del 2015 en lo que el alcalde de Los Ángeles, Eric Garcetti, firma legislación a partir de una ordenanza que eleva el salario mínimo a $15 para el 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10611470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activistas laborales celebran el 13 de junio del 2015 en lo que el alcalde de Los Ángeles, Eric Garcetti, firma legislación a partir de una ordenanza que eleva el salario mínimo a $15 para el 2020. \u003ccite>(MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Si la ciudad ya contara con una oficina de implementación de la ley salarial operante, explica, tal vez él y sus colegas no tendrían que haber entablado juicio contra su empleador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con todo, el ganar un juicio contra un empleador que no paga el salario legal no es garantía que los trabajadores reciban el dinero que se les debe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según un informe del comisionado estatal de trabajo, sólo un 15 por ciento de las víctimas del robo de salarios que ganan sus casos reciben recompensa. 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