Miss Ollie's
Server at Miss Ollie’s in Oakland and a local organizer for the Restaurant Opportunity Center of the Bay, an advocacy organization aimed at increasing wages for restaurant workers
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Saqib Keval
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Which Way, L.A.?
The Challenges of Making LA's Minimum Wage a Reality On Saturday, Mayor Garcetti plans to sign a measure the City Council passed almost unanimously. It will make Los Angeles America’s biggest city to raise the minimum wage. Starting at $9 an hour, it will rise to $15 by the year 2020. Predictions of what will happen next are opposed diametrically.
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