The Los Angeles City Council gave a final vote on an ordinance Wednesday to increase the minimum wage for workers at private hospitals to $25 an hour throughout the city.
The increase, which will affect all workers in the hospital and not just healthcare workers, has been under discussion since the early days of the pandemic. Due to the increased risk of COVID-19, many leaving positions during the great resignation, as well as the increased difficulty of hiring and retaining employees due to many feeling washed out and under appreciated during the pandemic, the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers (SEIU-UHW) union began collecting signatures for a ballot initiative to increase the minimum wage for workers at private hospitals to $25 an hour last year.
The goal was to bring the minimum wage increase to a vote this November. However, once enough signatures were collected and confirmed, the L.A. City Council had the choice to either send it to voters in November or approve the measure themselves. They opted for the latter, leading up to a vote last week. However, the Council did not unanimously pass it. Councilmen Paul Krekorian and Joe Buscaino voted no, leading to a 10-2 vote that triggered a second vote this week due to City Council rules.
With a few Council members pulling out of the vote this week either in protest or because of a conflict of interest due to being on a hospital board, it passed 10-0 on Wednesday, sending the ordinance to Mayor...
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