Anaheim hotel workers have been pushing and speaking out for greater pay and protections on the job in a city where FBI agents in sworn affidavits last year accused resort interests of having undue influence over city hall.
These workers have gotten enough signatures to force city council members in Anaheim – home to the Disneyland Resort – to have a public discussion on a proposed ordinance that would mandate a $25 minimum wage and panic buttons for hotel workers.
Tonight, council members are expected to decide at their 5 p.m. meeting if they will adopt that ordinance outright, call for a financial impact analysis or put the question to voters next year.
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That meeting will take place on the one year anniversary of a federal affidavit surfacing in which the FBI alleged that a small cadre of Disneyland resort area insiders through the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce essentially steer public policy in Anaheim largely behind closed doors.
It’s the same interests an ordinance like this could impact.
Interests that routinely spend heavily on elections in Anaheim.
Mayor Ashleigh Aitken and the rest of the city council did not respond to requests for comment Monday.
Still, United Here Local 11, a union representing 32,000 hotel workers in Southern California and Arizona, has been leading an effort to get as many cities in Orange County to adopt ordinances granting better pay for workers.
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