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    Labor, business reach deal to raise fast-food wages and end California ballot fight

    by Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times Sep 11, 2023 5 minutes
    Fast-food cooks and cashiers protest outside of a McDonald’ s in North Highlands, California in August 2022, to show their support for Assembly Bill AB 257..

    Fast-food companies agreed over the weekend to pull a California referendum off next year's ballot that sought to reverse a landmark worker-protections law, forgoing a costly political fight with labor unions over employee pay.

    The deal will result in an increase in the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 an hour in April and form a new council of representatives for workers and companies to consider pay bumps in the future, according to sources involved in the negotiations.

    Negotiated with the help of Gov. Gavin Newsom's top advisors, the agreement represents a rare compromise that allows business groups and labor to avoid a ballot fight over repealing a law boosting fast-food wages that could have topped $100 million in campaign spending.

    "It is a powerful, amazing day," said Tia Orr, executive director of Service Employees International Union California. "The new bill really

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