Press Associates Union News Service at People’s World reports California’s thousands of Fast Food Workers won’t stop with one big win - a $20 Statewide Minimum Wage with future increases to match inflation - two speakers told the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) at the Union’s International Convention that was just held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Now they want even more State Standards to apply to their bosses.  The two explained how they and the Union lobbied the California Legislature to erect a State Board to regulate the industry.  And the Board, which will have Fast Food Workers on it, will also be able to set working conditions in the State’s thousands of eateries, with the power of the State - whose officials will be Board Members, too, along with managers - to enforce them.  The win for the Workers, achieved through legislation late last year, shows the power of a Union, and especially one with large numbers of people, to swing Lawmakers its way, for their benefit.  It also shows the advantage every two years of turning out Workers in large numbers at the polls to ensure Pro-Worker Lawmakers, not pro-corporate ones, win.  “We are making history.  Most of us are Women of Color and Immigrants, and two-thirds of us are Latinas,” one of the Workers told those at the convention. “Together we faced some of the largest corporations in the world - and we won.”

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