Measure N: Voters Approve $13 Wage And Benefits For Long Beach Hotel Workers

The Long Beach Business Journal ^ | November 20, 2012 | Joshua H. Silavent

[dalereed]

They just destroyed their tourist business!

[Gene Eric]

Workers’ welfare.

[Gene Eric]

>> They just destroyed their tourist business!

Don’t need to have my hotel room cleaned up every day. Sometimes leave the DND sign when I leave my gear in the room.

[Smokin' Joe]

What these idiots don't understand is that if the electorate can give raises, the electorate can take them away. While the electorate should hold that power over public sector wages (government employees), it should not be able to decide what private concerns pay their employees.

That should be between the employees and the business.

If I were the major hotel owners, I would immediately start a petition to drop the wages across the board (or even just at the management level) of all public sector employees in the jurisdiction, just to hear them howl, then turn it around and aim it at them.

After all, if there are public sector people in nonhazardous jobs who are making multiples of the living wage there, compared to those who aren't (smaller hotels), well, that just isn't 'fair', either.That 'fairness' schtick can be a two-edged sword--especially when tax money is picking up the tab.

[stormhill]

There’s the rub. California people can escape to anywhere but they still bring themselves along.

[rockinqsranch]

We sold, and moved out of Long Beach in ‘87.

For good reason.

[tflabo]

Well then the hotels have to raise their rates and/or hire less employees. Customers have options too. Charge them too much and they go elsewhere. Businesses can’t survive and neither do the jobs. How’s that “living wage’ crapola gonna work out then?