Living Wage Poll Blog Roundup

We got a decent amount of blogosphere coverage yesterday on our living wage poll, even if there were no print articles. Here is a quick roundup of the posts and comments in reaction.

Frank Russo over at the California Progress Report:

These results have implications for other cities and counties in California, especially those that have a high cost of living where the state's increased minimum wage is not sufficient for many workers to live locally despite working full time.

Elliot Petty at the Courage Campaign:

In the wacky world of Hollywood, nothing is a sure thing, but the Los Angeles business lobby may want to begin hedging their bets that if they put the city's new Living Wage Law up for a referendum vote, the people are virtually certain to approve raising wages for airport-area hotel workers.

Bob Salladay at the his LAT's blog Political Muscle:

The L.A. Times' Joe Mathews reports: Los Angeles voters favor keeping a new law extending the $10.64 an hour "living wage" ordinance to LAX-area hotel workers by better than 3 to 1, according to a poll commissioned by a nonprofit group affiliated with labor unions. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez had intervened to support hotel workers who had fasted to protest the referendum.

The law, which was supported by unions attempting to organize workers in that corridor, is the subject of a referendum effort by hotels and business groups. The city council must decide this week whether to put the referendum on the May ballot.

atdleft in the Calitics comments:

If we can win a living wage in LA now, then hopefully we can win more battles throughout the state...

And eventually, win a statewide living wage.

These poor workers certainly deserve it.

: )

eugene in the Daily Kos comments:

Excellent news

A living wage is a key component of strategies to help people who work for a living actually be able to meet the cost of living in California.

Bill Bradley at New West Notes:

L.A. LIVING WAGE LAW. Organized labor in LA has a poll that it say shows that any election move by the business lobby to try to overturn the city’s “living wage” law — which grants airport area hotel service workers a higher minimum wage than others, $9.30 per hour, plus another $1.25 an hour for benefits — would be a slam dunk failure. The numbers show the law supported, 74% to 23%. Indeed, backers say that voters want to go further with the law. There’s no real reason to doubt that. Public support for an increased minimum wage is broad throughout California. But campaigns are campaigns, and what LA labor is not mentioning is that a living wage law in even more liberal Santa Monica was defeated in a public vote.

And last, but not least, the California Majority post put up a post by Marvin and Brian.

Thanks for helping spread the word folks!