[central_va]

Wrong. There may be less hotels paying more and costing the customer more. But there will be hotels. There will be 10 hotels paying $10.00/hr for labor or 7 hotels paying $15.00 for labor.

[rb22982]

Hotels are already paying $15/hour for hourly associates in the vast majority of the country. Sure, there are some areas that are in the $10-12 range - like MS and AL - but not many and not where you need a lot of hotels. Our average non-salaried associates for full time associates is exactly $15/hr today and about $12.50 for part time associates.

And yes, you are correct the price will go up for goods that do exist - which means the associate and folks in general are not actually making more, which defeats the point of your cheerleading raising wages in first place. If wages go up 25% but prices for everything go up 30-50%, how does that help?