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California’s Fast Food Minimum Wage Hike Cost the State 18,000 Jobs. That Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone.
October 23, 2025 // The trio looked at fast-food employment in California and found a decline of 2.64 percent between September 2023 and September 2024—six months before and after the law went into effect. During that same time period, fast-food employment in the rest of the United States slightly increased. Those different outcomes make it likely that the law caused fast-food businesses to hire fewer people, with a probable effect of lowering such employment 2.3 percent to 3.9 percent. At the middle of the range, that means about 18,000 fewer jobs in California.
NY state senator introduces bill requiring driver in autonomous trucks
January 16, 2024 // Sen. Pete Harckham, a Democrat from South Salem in Westchester County, and leaders from Teamsters Local 456 announced new legislation that will require drivers to accompany trucks with autonomous operating technology traveling on roadways in New York. The announcement was made earlier this month at a special press conference at the headquarters of Teamsters Local 456. Joining Harckham and Louis A. Picani, president and principal officer of Teamsters Local 456, for the announcement were a number of other Teamsters officials, as well as Rachel Estroff, chief-of-staff for State Sen. Shelley B. Mayer, a co-sponsor of the new autonomous operating bill (S.7758).