El Monte residents get their wish: Walmart project approved
EL MONTE >> Residents are finally getting what they’ve been asking for. Walmart is coming to El Monte. For more than five years, residents have implored the City Council to bring the retail giant to El Monte. They’ve bashed city leaders for not doing enough to attract it. They’ve lamented that El Monte can’t get […]
Update on Small Business Initiative and Minimum Wage Work
Last week, BizFed members turned out in force to support the Small Business Initiative motion put forward by Supervisors Hilda Solis and Don Knabe and to make their voices heard on LA County’s effort to raise the minimum wage. Many thanks to the following BizFed members who were there and testified: Regional Black Chamber of […]
L.A. Sups vote to raise minimum wage in unincorporated areas
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to incrementally raise the minimum wage in unincorporated areas over the next five years, reaching $15 an hour by 2020. Supervisor Hilda Solis, initially hesitant about the possible impact on small businesses, joined Sheila Kuehl and Mark Ridley-Thomas in backing the ordinance. Supervisors Michael Antonovich and […]
L.A. mayor hopes others do not adopt $15 minimum wage
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that while he thought a new $15 minimum wage would be a boon for the city, it wasn’t necessarily a good idea for other places to adopt that rate. He added that it would be good for the city if the surrounding Los Angeles County, which is mulling […]
Minimum wage: The future of the hourly worker in LA (#AT30)
Listen to the story on KPCC, by following this link. Larry Mantle and industry experts and workers discussed the impact and implementation of a $15 minimum wage hike in the City of Los Angeles at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood on July 7, 2015. KPCC’s AirTalk’s event focused on the impact and implementation […]
LA County balking at matching city’s $15 minimum wage
The city of Los Angeles’ decision to increase the minimum wage there to $15 an hour is causing turmoil for the surrounding county, where an effort to match the city’s rate has stalled. County Supervisor Hilda Solis, whose support is crucial, stunned advocates by opposing the proposed increase during a board of supervisors meeting Tuesday, […]
LA City Council rebuffs unions on exception to $15 wage, for now
The Los Angeles City Council rebuffed organized labor Wednesday by rejecting, for now at least, their request to include an exception for unionized businesses in the city’s new $15-an-hour minimum wage. The wage ordinance may still be amended to include the labor exemption before it takes effect, though. The ordinance’s passage Wednesday, even without the […]
L.A. committee approves final $15 minimum wage ordinance, asks for study of union exemption
Los Angeles is one step closer to a $15 minimum wage, after a key city council committee approved the final ordinance Friday afternoon. The controversial issue of whether union members should be exempt from the new wage dominated the hearing of the Economic Development committee. “This simply isn’t a secret way to incentivize workers to […]
