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  • 'Living wage' for LAX hotel staffs blocked

    05/05/2007 7:31:27 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 43 replies · 1,385+ views
    LA Times ^ | May 5, 2007 | Joe Mathews and Steve Hymon
    A judge Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Los Angeles' labor and political leadership, barring the city from enforcing a ballyhooed new ordinance that would have extended the city's "living wage" protections to workers at hotels near Los Angeles International Airport. The eight-page order by Superior Court Judge David P. Yaffe went far beyond merely blocking a law that had been considered a point of pride for the city's powerful labor interests. As a practical matter, Yaffe dealt a political defeat to the City Council, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the union that championed the law. During a yearlong political and...