Posted on 05/18/2025 7:45:46 AM PDT by Morgana
A new minimum wage proposal has Los Angeles hotels in a panic ahead of the 2028 Olympics, as it may drive businesses to discard deals or shutter plans completely.
The proposal of a $30 minimum hourly wage has hospitality corporations in the area preparing to slash expansion plans as well as deals in the works for the next Games.
The Olympics holds the potential for the hosting city to draw in thousands of tourists and spectators who come to watch the games from across the globe.
LA28, the private, non-profit company organizing the Games, has a budget of $6.9billion funded by corporate sponsorships, licensing agreements and a large contribution from the International Olympic Committee.
But fears are already looming that a hefty bill may end up in the hands of Los Angeles taxpayers, and the minimum wage proposal furthers worries as hotels threaten to move or cut business from the area.
This week it was decided that the council will deliberate on the proposal of hotel and airport minimum wage increases by July 1.
Wage increases were already set to happen this year, but the proposal details an increase to $25 by July 2026, $27.50 by July 2027 and $30 by July 2028 - in time for the Games.
Sun Hill Properties Inc. warned the council ahead of the vote that, should it be approved without significant changes, they 'absolutely will be pulling out of the room block for the Olympics'.
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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?
Hey why not make it $100? Gavin Newsome probably would sign. Make it a MINIMUM, make everyone rich...
“What the market will bear.”
Why do baseball and football stadiums sell $10 water and $25 burgers?
Big nope. More utopian garbage from the rats trying to placate their hordes of cultists.
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?
The LA Olympics will make the Paris Olympics look well-run by comparison.
Why do baseball and football stadiums sell $10 water and $25 burgers?
Why do dogs lick their you-know-whats?
The fruit of democrat and leftist rule.
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.
Ever since Paris I don’t give a damn about the Olympics.
“”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.
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.
Why would anyone want to “host” the Olympics, not the money maker it was if it ever really was
Haven’t given a damn since Jim McKay hosted them.
“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!!!
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?
“”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.
But fears are already looming that a hefty bill may end up in the hands of Los Angeles taxpayers,
Same reason an airport bars charge $21 for a cocktail. They have a trapped audience, a monopoly of sorts.
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