L.A. council backs $30 minimum wage for tourism workers, despite warnings

8 walterbell 7 5/31/2025, 7:18:40 AM latimes.com ↗

Comments (7)

frankharv · 18h ago
So an Inside Machinist would earn $17.28 minimum while a housekeeper at a hotel makes $30 minimum.

A person who needs schooling to do their job versus a person who cleans.

This is the problem with setting setting wages for individual occupations.

Strongest union wins?

chung8123 · 6h ago
They do it this way so they can move the wages inch by inch. There is not as much opposition if you do it one industry at a time. Same thing they did with the fast food worker minimum wage.
bryanrasmussen · 23h ago
at a moment when tourism is tanking due to governmental policies, wonder how it will play out.
karlgkk · 20h ago
which policies?
apercu · 20h ago
Perhaps they mean the on again off again on again tariffs that have destroyed trade relationships and consumer confidence, which certainly impacts tourism.
waitwhat · 19h ago
There is also the foreign policy based on threats and insults, increasing reports of hostile border experiences, reductions in non-tourist visas, US economic policy reducing consumer confidence globally leading to fewer people committing to inter-continental travel, and the fact that some people simply prefer not to visit countries whose domestic policies they disagree with.
watwut · 20h ago
The ones that make foreigners afraid to come.

The ones where you threaten annexation of other counties, lie about them, insult them and then they boycott you.