LAX Workers Demand Wage Law Compliance
About 200 Los Angeles International Airport workers held a rally Wednesday demanding that the companies that have contracts at the airport honor Los Angeles’ “living wage ordinance,” which requires city contractors and leaseholders to pay wages in accordance with city standards.
Janitors, skycaps and security personnel surrounded the space-styled Encounter restaurant, where they cheered community leaders and labor activists who support them.
The living wage ordinance, passed by the City Council in March, calls for wages of at least $7.25 per hour with benefits such as health insurance or $8.50 without.
Although the law has gone into effect, many of the estimated 2,000 to 3,000 minimum-wage airport workers have not received the pay hike because they were hired by contractors that the airlines employ, rather than by the airlines themselves.
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