Los Angeles is ‘on a path to having the highest-paid unemployed workforce in the country’
In a 12-3 vote last month, the Los Angeles City Council approved a minimum wage hike for airport and hotel workers, with the goal of reaching $30 an hour by 2028 – in time for the Los Angeles hosted Olympics, the Globe reported.
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Just a little opportunistic? Oh Hell yes. This $30 per hour wage will clearly help facilitate the demise of the Los Angeles tourism industry – and possibly the LA28 Olympics. Behind this destructive move is labor union Unite Here Local 11, which represents hotel and airport workers.
When did LA become such a cataclysmic hellhole, and why would anyone want the 2028 Olympics there? This is a march to Marxism, cloaked as social justice.
Following the LA City Council vote, the Center for Union Facts (CUF) ran a full-page ad in the California statewide edition of USA Today calling out the Los Angeles City Council’s decision to move forward with a union-backed $30 minimum wage for hotel and tourism workers, saying the city is “ruining a golden opportunity.”
The ad called out the 11,000 hospitality jobs the city lost last year, saying “this new proposal will kill more jobs and raise costs for visitors.” The city’s industry has faced a perfect storm of natural and man-made disasters, including the recent fires, unrealistic wage and benefit mandates, and disruptive strikes that hinder tourism.
“L.A.’s hospitality industry is already struggling, and this drastic wage increase will only make the situation worse,” said Charlyce Bozzello, communications director for the Center for Union Facts. “The union pushing for this policy – Unite Here Local 11 – is the same union that has disrupted weddings, disturbed countless hotel guests with early morning protests, and even tried to ruin a Taylor Swift concert. Now, it looks like the union’s next target is the L.A. Olympics.”
However, Unite Here Local 11 is pushing the $30 an hour minimum wage, except when it comes to their own canvassers. Local 11 is looking to hire canvassers for their $30 wage proposal. The twist is, they are paying those canvassers $20 an hour, a full $10 an hour under the “living wage” they are trying to require of LA hotels.
Just a little hypocrisy from the labor union?
These idiots helped destroy legal Ag. worker contracts with Mexican workers. Green card, capable of traveling the border for emergencies, Christmas, etc.
The Dems were stupid enough to raise minimum wages that put entry level jobs out of reach, killing many jobs.
Yep we are the union and we are for you (who is you?) the workers that will be out of work because the businesses cannot afford the new wages.
Insanity = repeatedly doing what doesn’t work hoping for a different outcome.
Laugh