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LA hotels expanding for 2028 Olympics are thrown into crisis as workers demand $30 minimum wage
Daily Mail UK ^ | May 18, 2025 | Lauren Acton-Taylor

Posted on 05/18/2025 7:45:46 AM PDT by Morgana

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I'll side with the workers on this one. Everyone else is making money off the olympics why not them?
1 posted on 05/18/2025 7:45:46 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Given that California’s normal minimum wage is $16.50, what precisely is it about the Olympics that warrants an 81% increase in the hourly rate?


2 posted on 05/18/2025 7:48:16 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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Hey why not make it $100? Gavin Newsome probably would sign. Make it a MINIMUM, make everyone rich...


3 posted on 05/18/2025 7:48:33 AM PDT by rovenstinez (Wo)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

“What the market will bear.”

Why do baseball and football stadiums sell $10 water and $25 burgers?


4 posted on 05/18/2025 7:53:07 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: Morgana

Big nope. More utopian garbage from the rats trying to placate their hordes of cultists.


5 posted on 05/18/2025 7:53:13 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: Morgana

Wait a minute. A $30 per hour minimum wage in LA by July 2028? For every worker? Or for some weird reason, only for hotel workers?


6 posted on 05/18/2025 7:53:29 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: ChuckHam

The LA Olympics will make the Paris Olympics look well-run by comparison.


7 posted on 05/18/2025 7:53:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Why do baseball and football stadiums sell $10 water and $25 burgers?


Why do dogs lick their you-know-whats?


8 posted on 05/18/2025 7:54:58 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Morgana

The fruit of democrat and leftist rule.


9 posted on 05/18/2025 7:57:36 AM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.")
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To: Morgana

There are people here who actually DEFEND UNIONS, including our local Shop Stewart.

I’m not one of them. I want unions sent to the same dustbin of history that we sent slavery to.


10 posted on 05/18/2025 7:57:52 AM PDT by BobL
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Ever since Paris I don’t give a damn about the Olympics.


11 posted on 05/18/2025 7:58:52 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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“”I’ll side with the workers on this one. Everyone else is making money off the olympics why not them?””

If you have to ask “why?”.... you obviously have never read and don’t know about the greed that killed the golden goose.


12 posted on 05/18/2025 8:00:52 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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The Olympics need to die. It was great during The Cold War, but it’s a shell of what it used to be, now that millionaires are competing.


13 posted on 05/18/2025 8:02:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Why would anyone want to “host” the Olympics, not the money maker it was if it ever really was


14 posted on 05/18/2025 8:02:45 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: coloradan

Haven’t given a damn since Jim McKay hosted them.


15 posted on 05/18/2025 8:04:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: coloradan; SaveFerris; Chode; No name given

“Ever since Paris I don’t give a damn about the Olympics.”

Exactly why I hope these people get 30 buck an hour for working during it!!!


16 posted on 05/18/2025 8:06:47 AM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
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Why would anyone want to “host” the Olympics, not the money maker it was if it ever really was


Isn’t Montreal still trying to pay off for the 1976 Olympics?


17 posted on 05/18/2025 8:09:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“”The Olympics need to die. It was great during The Cold War, but it’s a shell of what it used to be, now that millionaires are competing.””

And... like everything else the radical leftists have ‘touched’... it has turned into politically-driven crap. Fundamentally transformed, IOW. Trannies will get the proverbial “leg up” in 2028, no doubt.... unless they come up with some other group they favor more between now and then. But what else is there...? I shudder to find out.


18 posted on 05/18/2025 8:12:45 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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But fears are already looming that a hefty bill may end up in the hands of Los Angeles taxpayers,


now they are taxpayers?


19 posted on 05/18/2025 8:13:54 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Same reason an airport bars charge $21 for a cocktail. They have a trapped audience, a monopoly of sorts.


20 posted on 05/18/2025 8:17:07 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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