California's minimum wage inflation cycle isn't stopping soon

California’s minimum wage inflation isn’t going to stop with the massive fast-food wage hike. Instead, it is going to grow worse year after year.

Just four months after the state jacked up the fast-food minimum wage from $16 to $20 an hour, the Service Employees International Union is demanding another increase. The SEIU wants a 70-cent increase in the hourly minimum wage at the first meeting of the state’s brand new Fast Food Council, which can increase that number for the next several years and can reconvene any time in the future after its allotted time period runs out.