{"id":117821,"date":"2021-02-04T12:58:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117821"},"modified":"2021-02-04T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T18:27:53","slug":"hero-pay-ca-cities-demand-pay-raise-for-grocery-workers-then-stores-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hero-pay-ca-cities-demand-pay-raise-for-grocery-workers-then-stores-close\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hero Pay\u2019: CA Cities Demand Pay Raise For Grocery Workers. Then Stores Close."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhero-pay-ca-cities-demand-pay-raise-for-grocery-workers-then-stores-close%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117821&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230955977.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As cities across California target grocery stores, demanding they offer \u201chero pay\u201d to employees in the form of raising their wages $4-$5 an hour, grocery stores are closing in response.<\/p>\n<p>On January 19, the Long Beach City Council approved a measure that would force supermarkets with at least 300 employees nationwide and more than 15 in Long Beach to raise their workers\u2019 wages $4 an hour for the next 120 days. &nbsp;Mayor Robert Garcia said, \u201cThese folks that are working at these markets and these grocery stores are heroes. This is nothing new. They have received this type of additional pay in the past and if they deserved it in the past, they deserve it today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/2021\/02\/01\/long-beachs-grocery-worker-wage-bump-spurs-closure-of-ralphs-food-4-less-sites-in-city\/\">Press-Telegram<\/a> reported, \u201cThe Kroger Co., which owns Ralphs and Food 4 Less, announced Monday, Feb. 1, that it will close a Ralphs in East Long Beach, 3380 N. Los Coyotes Diagonal, and a Food 4 Less in North Long Beach, 2185 E. South St., on April 17.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kroger issued a statement: \u201cAs a result of the City of Long Beach\u2019s decision to pass an ordinance mandating Extra Pay for grocery workers, we have made the difficult decision to permanently close long-struggling store locations in Long Beach. This misguided action by the Long Beach City Council oversteps the traditional bargaining process and applies to some, but not all, grocery workers in the city.\u201d John Votava, the corporate affairs director for Ralphs, added, \u201cThese misguided mandates could put any struggling store in jeopardy of closure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the California Grocers Association blasted the Long Beach decision. CEO Ron Fong stated, \u201cA $4\/hour increase represents about a 28 percent increase in labor costs for grocers. There\u2019s no way grocers can absorb that big of a cost increase without an offset somewhere else, considering grocers operate with razor thin margins and many stores already operate in the red. The Long Beach City Council put politics ahead of families and jobs in the middle of a pandemic. This was entirely avoidable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other California cities have passed measures demanding \u201chero pay\u201d for grocery workers. On January 27, the Montebello City Council passed a bill that would force large drug and grocery stores to give their employees a $4 per hour raise for the next 180 days despite the possibility the city would be sued. Prior to the unanimous vote by the council,&nbsp;City Attorney Arnold Alvarez-Glasman warned them that the California Grocers Association had already sued Long Beach, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whittierdailynews.com\/2021\/01\/29\/despite-threat-of-lawsuit-montebello-passes-hero-pay-increase-for-drug-grocery-store-workers\/\">Whittier Daily News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA $5-per-hour hazard pay wage increase was approved Tuesday by the Oakland City Council,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/2-california-supermarkets-closing-city-164517339.html\">Yahoo News<\/a> noted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week, Santa Clara County passed a mandate for a five-dollar per hour raise for a variety of essential workers, including grocery clerks. Similar resolutions have been drafted and will likely come up for a vote in Los Angeles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sgvtribune.com\/2021\/01\/28\/pomona-pushes-for-extra-4-per-hour-in-hero-pay-for-grocery-workers\/\">Pomona<\/a>, Oakland, and San Jose,\u201d Jazz Shaw of <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/jazz-shaw\/2021\/02\/03\/hero-pay-forces-store-closures-california\/\">HotAir<\/a> reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cities across California target grocery stores, demanding they offer \u201chero pay\u201d to employees in the form of raising their wages $4-$5 an hour, grocery stores are closing in response. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892642,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5037,4368,5285,5280,5283,5015],"class_list":["post-117821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cities","tag-demand","tag-grocery","tag-pay","tag-raise","tag-workers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}