"The business group looking to repeal a $30 per hour minimum wage for Los Angeles hotel and airport workers failed to secure enough signatures to qualify the proposal for the ballot, city officials said Monday. The L.A. Alliance for Tourism, Jobs and Progress had been hoping to persuade voters to repeal the wage ordinance approved by the City Council four months ago. The referendum needed about 93,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot but fell short by about 9,000, according to a statement from interim City Clerk Petty Santos."
"The council voted in May to approve a series of yearly wage increases for hotel employees and workers at Los Angeles International Airport, following a two-year campaign by labor organizers. Under the ordinance, the hourly minimum wage for those workers would increase to $22.50 in July, then $25 in July 2026, $27.50 in July 2027 and $30 in July 2028, right before the Olympic Games in L.A. But once opponents turned in their signatures, the measure was placed on hold."
Business groups led by the L.A. Alliance for Tourism, Jobs and Progress failed to collect the roughly 93,000 signatures required to place a repeal of the tourism-worker minimum wage on the ballot, falling about 9,000 signatures short. The ordinance, approved by the City Council after a two-year labor campaign, schedules phased hourly increases for hotel and LAX workers to reach $30 by July 2028, just before the Olympic Games. The repeal effort paused the ordinance while signatures were submitted. Major financial backers of the repeal effort included Delta, United and the American Hotel & Lodging Assn.
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