Breaking: Living Wage Deal

I will have more later, but we took a step forward today towards ensuring a living wage for the LAX hotel workers. Here is the initial LAT article.

This is the main piece:

Chief among those elements would be a three-part "phase-in" of a living wage over the next year. Workers at the hotels would get a small raise upon passage of new legislation, a second raise in July that would bring them to $10.64 per hour, and finally a cost of living increase on Jan. 1, 2008.

Our poll indicates that we can do way more towards ensuring all workers earn a living wage, but this is encouraging news.