California voters have rejected Prop 32, which would have raised the state's minimum wage from $16 to $18.

California voters have rejected Prop 32, which would have raised the state’s minimum wage from $16 to $18.

With 100% of the ballots tallied, the measure was rejected by a 0.8% margin (50.8 - 49.2), according to the California Secretary of State’s office. The total vote difference for the proposition was 234,146.

  • Cruxifux
    20•2 months ago

    Work in the trades. You’ll see a fuck ton of people who are against minimum wage going up.

    • @Wogi
      11•2 months ago

      I work in the trades, in a deeply red state.

      There are a few against it but for the most part people I work with support a minimum wage raise.

      I work with some shitty people but don’t put that evil on us.

      • @[email protected]
        0•2 months ago

        I’m sure they say a lot of things, but when it comes down to it, they likely vote for people who are fighting against raising the minimum wage. And if it came down to a ballot initiative, they would vote against it.

      • @[email protected]
        9•2 months ago

        It increases the cost of living for everything else.

        Yes, I know that the cost of living is going up regardless, but that is their answer.

        • @RagingRobot
          15•2 months ago

          That sounds a lot like “I make more than them and if they get a raise I won’t”. The cost of living has nothing to do with that lol

        • andyburke
          9•2 months ago

          But thst doesn’t happen when they have raised the minimum wage in other places. Why do they think that?

        • @Donebrach
          5•2 months ago

          this has been disproven time and time again and is just propaganda you are parroting.

      • Cruxifux
        0•2 months ago

        It’s half the low that cost of living is tied to it, and half that they don’t want people who work “less hard” to make as much money as they do.