A Los Angeles city councilman wants to raise the minimum wage for tourism workers to $25.
A view of Avalon Boulevard in South Los Angeles. A lawmaker is proposing a $25 minimum wage for tourism workers in the city.
Price and SEIU United Service Workers West and Unite Here Local 11, the unions representing the workers, gathered Wednesday outside City Hall to discuss the motion. "Many of the working people who are the foundation of LA's tourism economy, working in LA hotels and at LAX, are struggling to survive on the city’sThe proposal would impact those employed at Los Angeles hotels with 60 or more rooms and workers in certain fields at LAX such as janitors, airplane cabin cleaners, security officers and airline catering employees.
"Tourism brings billions of dollars to our economy, and the businesses benefiting from tourism workers’ labor can afford to provide good jobs with fair wages," Price tweeted. "The living wage movement is a social justice movement where here in Los Angeles nearly 9 out 10 tourism workers are people of color."
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