Today, Governor Brown, Legislative leaders and the Labor movement made history by announcing a policy that would raise the wages of underpaid Californians to $15 per hour by 2022. More than one in three California workers, or nearly 6 million Californians, will receive a raise under this policy. Combined with workers who are already on a path to $15 because of local efforts by organizations such as Silicon Valley Rising in the South Bay, more than 6.5 million workers will now have a path to a $15 wage.
The agreement in California is the latest victory for the Fight for $15 and underpaid workers who three years ago launched their movement for higher pay and union rights. In California, local Fight for $15 organizations have won key victories in Los Angeles and San Francisco. In Silicon Valley, cities such as Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Palo Alto, have already committed to a $15 minimum wage, thanks to the regional work by Silicon Valley Rising.
Additionally, the policy ends an unfair exclusion of home care workers from a state guarantee of three paid sick days for all workers. When this agreement is signed into law by Governor Brown, California will be the first state in the nation to adopt this standard for all workers.
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