Hospitals, health facilities must get more than 40,000 signatures for a referendum on the ordinance
In one week, a Los Angeles ordinance raising the minimum wage for thousands of workers at private hospitals and dialysis clinics to $25 an hour will go into effect.
Unless those opposing the measure get the nearly 41,000 signatures needed for a referendum before Aug. 13.
SEIU-UHW, the health care workers union that pushed for the wage increase, alleges that signature gatherers have been misleading citizens, telling them that their signatures are needed “to pay workers more” and “to raise the health care workers’ wages,” the Los Angeles Times reported.
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The union has filed dozens of complaints about alleged violations of election codes to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office and to the Los Angeles city clerk’s office this week. Under California law, it’s illegal for anyone circulating a petition to intentionally make false statements about it. The union has also sent representatives to locations where signature gatherers are camped out “to let the public know they have an option to withdraw their signatures,” SEIU-UHW spokesperson Renée Saldaña told the LA Times. According to Saldaña, the union has sent dozens of withdrawal forms from residents to the city clerk.
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