Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers
Labor union attorney with the law firm of Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers, and counsel to the LA County Federation of Labor
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Margo Feinberg
Guest
FROM Margo Feinberg
Which Way, L.A.?
Labor Asks for a Pass on LA's New Minimum Wage? 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?
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