After eight months of often contentious negotiations, last week LA labor unions helped push through a plan to increase the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020. Now they seem to have pulled an about-face on the position that everyone deserves a living wage. They're asking that businesses with unionized work forces be exempt. Why? How might it affect the final draft of the city's new minimum wage ordinance?
Labor Asks for a Pass on LA's New Minimum Wage?
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Guests:
- Dakota Smith - investigative journalist for the LA Times - @dakotacdsmith
- Margo Feinberg - Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers
- Ruben Gonzalez - LA Area Chamber of Commerce - @rubzg3
- Mike Bonin - member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 11th district - @mikebonin