Local labor unions kick off campaign to persuade San Diego's elected leaders to approve a new minimum wage for the city's hotel workers, as well as janitors and security personnel employed by tech companies.
Hundreds of lower paid service workers gathered in downtown San Diego on Wednesday afternoon to formally kick off a campaign to raise their hourly pay to $25. A proposed ordinance seeking a citywide pay hike for workers employed by hotels, tech companies, and large convention and sports facilities has already been drafted, and a coalition of three local labor unions are hoping to persuade the San Diego City Council to enact it into law.
'Twenty-five dollars an hour is still hard to live on in San Diego,' Lorena Gonzalez, head of the California Labor Federation, said to the cheering workers gathered at Bayfront Park, adjoining the Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel. 'We know we are asking for something that barely, people who are working 40 hours a week could even get by on. This is not unreasonable.
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