Stay engaged with statewide and local minimum wage initiatives
Statewide Minimum Wage Ballot Measure: Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers West has submitted an initiative for the 2016 ballot, which would raise statewide minimum wage to $15/hr by the year 2021. Minimum Wage Across LA County: On Feb. 1, Pasadena City Council voted unanimously (7-0) to raise the city’s minimum wage to$13.25 […]
Long Beach Chamber Of Commerce Seeks Wage Changes
By Randy Gordon Posted on Jan 29, 2016 After a lengthy discussion, our City Council voted 6 – 2 Jan. 19 to pass a minimum wage ordinance. Councilman Daryl Supernaw and Councilwoman Stacy Mungo were the two dissenters. Councilwoman Suzie Price had to leave the council meeting early for a family emergency. The action of […]
BizFed Installs Officers for 2016
By HOWARD FINE Thursday, January 21, 2016 The Los Angeles County Business Federation, the umbrella group of local business organizations, has installed its new officers for 2016. The federation, commonly called BizFed, is an alliance of 155 business organizations in Los Angeles County representing 275,000 businesses that employ roughly 3 million people. It formed eight […]
Long Beach Approves $13 An Hour Minimum Wage, Path To $15 An Hour
Story by: Harry Saltzgaver Contact: hsalt@gazettes.com. After a five-hour hearing Tuesday night, the Long Beach City Council approved in principal a minimum wage increase to $13 an hour in 2019, with a path to $15 an hour in 2021. Vice Mayor Suja Lowenthal made the motion to accept the recommendation of the Economic Development Commission, including […]
Minimum Wage: Share your thoughts with Long Beach City Council as they consider their own increase
The City of Long Beach has started the process of considering whether and how to developed its own ordinance to raise the minimum wage. BizFed’s Long Beach members and stakeholders are working together to ensure that Long Beach’s deliberative process includes critical business voices to shape a better outcome for the local and regional economy. […]
BizFed Leadership Roundtable with Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez
On Friday, November 6, BizFed leaders met with Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez, Chairman, Committee on Appropriations. Attendees learned that Asm. Gomez and Sen. Beall, Co-Chairs of Transportation Infrastructure Conference Committee, will ensure transportation funding bills get full floor votes this spring. Want to learn more? Click here for the full onesheet. Leadership roundtables are exclusive opportunities […]
OCTOBER BIZFED BOARD ACTIONS
Many thanks to UCLA Extension for generously hosting the October Board Meeting at their Downtown LA location. We addressed a number of hot issues. See below for the details! BizFed supports HR 9 Innovation Act to prevent frivolous patent lawsuits 2015 is on track to have more patent lawsuits filed than any year in history. 68% of […]
BizFed delivers wins on supermajority of bills we worked in 2015!
Sunday was the deadline for Gov. Brown to act on bills coming out of this year’s state legislative session, and we are pleased to report that more than two-thirds of the bills BizFed mobilized either to support or oppose resulted in our desired outcome. Please see below for a full list of our bills and […]
