Bob, Can you give us more information about this. What does the ordinance do? What is in the report you refer to? Thanks. >Posted on 18 Mar 1997 at 20:15:49 by TELEC List Distributor (011802) > >[PEN-L:9004] LA Living Wage Passes! > >Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 17:14:23 -0800 (PST) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Robert Pollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Finally, some very good news for the left and labor movement. After >a long, bitter struggle, the LA Living Wage ordinance passed 12 - 0, with >three abstensions. Mayor Richard Riordan had promised to veto the >ordinance, but with a 12-vote majority, the ordinance is now veto proof! > > Though the coverage is still very small--directly probably about >5,000 workers--it should help unions to fight for new wage norms throughout >the city. > > This victory was the result of an extremely well organized and >effective labor/progressive coalition. Several people at UC-Riverside, >including me, worked with the coalition in producing research, including a >full scale study, "The Economics of the Los Angeles Living Wage Ordinance." > > There are great lessons here about what it takes to win something >worthwhile. One thing is that well-supported appeals to social justice >really can be effective at the local level, where the dominance of big money >corporate politics is far less pervasive--even in a big city like LA. > >-- Bob Pollin > >******************************************** > >Robert Pollin >Department of Economics >Univesity of California-Riverside >Riverside, CA 92521-0427 >(909) 787-5037, ext 1579 (office); (909) 788-8106 (home) >(909) 787-5685 (fax); [EMAIL PROTECTED] (e-mail) Marsh Feldman Phone: 401/874-5953 Community Planning, 204 Rodman Hall FAX: 401/874-5511 The University of Rhode Island Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kingston, RI 02881-0815
