“They’ve been with me on the picket line, and they’ve been marching with me as well,” Williams said of her children. Williams, a mother of six - seven if you count her beloved dog - works at a Jack in the Box restaurant in Inglewood. The moment was almost too much for Anneisha Williams, who held back tears as she spoke during a news conference just before Newsom signed the bill. Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union International, said the law capped 10 years of work - including 450 strikes across the state in the past two years. “That was a tectonic plate that had to be moved,” Newsom said, referring to what he said were the more than 100 hours of negotiations it took to reach an agreement on the bills in the final weeks of the state legislative session. The industry, meanwhile, has agreed to pull a referendum related to worker wages off the 2024 ballot. In exchange for higher pay, labor unions have dropped their attempt to make fast food corporations liable for the misdeeds of their independent franchise operators in California, an action that could have upended the business model on which the industry is based. It also settles - for now, at least - a fight between labor and business groups over how to regulate the industry. Newsom’s signature reflects the power and influence of labor unions in the nation’s most populous state, which have worked to organize fast food workers in an attempt to improve their wages and working conditions. “We have the opportunity to reward that contribution, reward that sacrifice and stabilize an industry.” “That's a romanticized version of a world that doesn't exist,” Newsom said. Get San Diego local news, weather forecasts, sports and lifestyle stories to your inbox.
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