New Full-Page Ad Slams Los Angeles $30 Wage, Saying The City Is ‘Ruining a Golden Opportunity’
$30 min wage will result in higher hotel rates, reduced hours for hotel workers, and job losses in restaurants, retail, attractions, and struggling commercial corridors
By Katy Grimes, May 21, 2025 2:46 pm
And the gold medal goes to … anyone but the Los Angeles City Council.
In a 12-3 vote last week, the Los Angeles City Council approved a minimum wage hike for airport and hotel workers, with the goal of reaching $30 an hour by 2028 – in time for the Los Angeles hosted Olympics.
Just a little opportunistic? Hell yes.
Thursday, the Center for Union Facts (CUF) will run a full-page ad in the California statewide edition of USA Today calling out the Los Angeles City Council’s decision to move forward with a union-backed $30 minimum wage for hotel and tourism workers, saying the city is “ruining a golden opportunity.”
The ad calls out the 11,000 hospitality jobs the city lost last year, saying “this new proposal will kill more jobs and raise costs for visitors.” The city’s industry has faced a perfect storm of natural and man-made disasters, including the recent fires, unrealistic wage and benefit mandates, and disruptive strikes that hinder tourism.
“L.A.’s hospitality industry is already struggling, and this drastic wage increase will only make the situation worse,” said Charlyce Bozzello, communications director for the Center for Union Facts. “The union pushing for this policy – Unite Here Local 11 – is the same union that has disrupted weddings, disturbed countless hotel guests with early morning protests, and even tried to ruin a Taylor Swift concert. Now, it looks like the union’s next target is the L.A. Olympics.”
One of three no votes was made by Los Angeles City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, who had very practical economic motivation behind her vote, as the Globe reported:
“This policy imposes a significant wage and health benefit increase overnight that will inevitably result in higher hotel rates, reduced hours for hotel workers, and job losses–not just in hotels, but across businesses that rely on tourism: restaurants, retail, attractions, and our struggling commercial corridors. Tying the wage increase to the 2028 Olympics may sound appealing, but the reality is that many of those events are happening outside city limits, yet this increase only impacts the City of Los Angeles making our hotels less competitive and undercutting our ability to attract tourists resulting in a loss of TOT, taxes and other economic impacts that the City will lose as we are facing a $1 billion deficit and laying off workers.
“My concern remains that we are on a path to having the highest-paid unemployed workforce in the country, where wages go up, but job opportunities disappear because we failed to think through the economic impact on our small businesses, hotels, and the broader tourism sector.”
For a little labor union education on the union behind these controversial policies, take a look at EyesOn11.com.
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The City of Los Angeles is such a small, insignificant little dot in the bigger picture — as any map will show. The key here is that this is a CITY tax only. There are SO MANY other places to go, close and convenient, outside of the L.A. city limits. GONNA BE FUN TO WATCH, THOUGH! And, surrounding cities, don’t forget to send thank-you cards, notes and flowers to L.A. city for the bounty you’re about to receive in increased business and permanent goodwill.
Glad to see this protest of an attention-getting full-page ad from Center for Union Facts.
The City of L.A. (with 2 or 3 city council exceptions) is either completely unable to learn from the mistakes of the fast food $20 minimum wage law and its disastrous fallout, they are brainwashed Marxists who cannot think clearly and just do the same things over and over like robots, or they are — and have been — attempting to destroy the City of L.A. on purpose so they can be just like Detroit as soon as possible.
Very disturbing to read about the commie union-from-hell —- Unite Here Local 11 —- that is behind this and their beyond-disruptive tactics.
Hope everyone else here will take a look too:
EyesOn11.com