Gavin Newsom signs law raising minimum wage to $25 for California health care workers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Newsom's signing of the law means medical technicians, nursing assistants, custodians and other support staff will see a gradual wage hike that rolls out starting next year.
51% : What earlier this year seemed like a long shot is now a done deal: Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed a law that will raise the pay for hundreds of thousands of California health care workers and set them on a path to a $25 minimum wage.
51% : Health care employers got behind a plan to raise the minimum wage for their industry, and unions agreed to a 10-year moratorium on sponsoring local ballot measures to force pay raises at hospitals and other medical facilities.
46% : State agencies did not weigh in on the bill.
44% : How soon workers reach this level of pay will depend on the type of facility they work in.

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