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LA Hotels Revolt as City Approves $38 Minimum Wage
Hotair ^ | 05/24/2025 | John Sexton

Posted on 05/24/2025 9:39:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

What’s the problem? Just convert all of the commercial hotel properties to non-for-taxing NGO’s who offer affordable housing to recent arrivals. The other buildings can be converted to soccer fields. The new democrats LOVE soccer.


21 posted on 05/25/2025 3:00:53 AM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: frank ballenger

Wow! I haven’t heard the name EJ Korvette in forever! My mother loved that store! Along with Woodward & Lothrop, Hechts and Montgomery Ward.


22 posted on 05/25/2025 3:10:22 AM PDT by albie (U)
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To: SeekAndFind

Insanity!


23 posted on 05/25/2025 3:38:22 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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“ Wow! I haven’t heard the name EJ Korvette in forever! My mother loved that store! Along with Woodward & Lothrop, Hechts and Montgomery Ward..”

My first commercial employment at $1.03 per hour was in the housewares department at E.J. Korvette. Later worked there in sporting goods and then in credit, refunds, and gift wrap. Some woman brought in a pair of sunglasses for a refund. I asked her if they were broken when she bought them. She got a floor walker/manager who told me to give her a refund, as the customer is always right! Those were the days my friend…


24 posted on 05/25/2025 4:23:47 AM PDT by IWONDR ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s not the job of government to mandate any wage paid by a private business. Minimum wage laws need to be scrapped.


25 posted on 05/25/2025 4:35:41 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand (Mp)
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To: SeekAndFind
In further news Las Vegas is reporting increasing hotel reservation over the 2928 Olympic Games period. An anonymous source indicated “folks are will to commute to LA to avoid high Hotel rates. Staying in Vegas, and flying to and from LA is still cheaper than a Hotel in LA.”/sarc
26 posted on 05/25/2025 4:38:26 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: madison10

I think it is ridiculous; that kind of minimum wage & hosting the Olympics after that horrendous fire. Best just tell the Olympic committee to do it somewhere else or forget it, although I hate to say forget it on account of all those who have trained so hard for it.


27 posted on 05/25/2025 4:42:46 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: SeekAndFind
Used to run a business on The Queen Mary in Long Beach, Ca.

Very apprehensive about the '84 Olympics - congested freeways etc.

Didn't happen. The locals stayed home! Most of our business during that time was from out-of-state visitors and participants in The Games.

Can only imagine what hotels will be charging with payrolls so high.

28 posted on 05/25/2025 4:50:04 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: madison10

Do employers still need to complete an I9 for each employee?


29 posted on 05/25/2025 4:51:45 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

They just significantly reduced the timeline where all of LA will be a complete homeless shelter.


30 posted on 05/25/2025 5:29:46 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: frank ballenger

Frank, mine was $1.00 per hour at night processing the days transactions at a savings and loan! After 4 years I got to 2.00! There was a 10% bonus at Christmas even for the part timers plus a great Christmas party. Chubby Checker the twist was the rage then.


31 posted on 05/25/2025 5:40:05 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town to now!)
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To: Mouton

Bookmark


32 posted on 05/25/2025 5:41:58 AM PDT by Loud Mime ("The Real Constitution" on Amazon. We are not right wing - we are constitutional centrists.)
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To: madison10

What it is is the death nell for hotels in LA, oh people may have no choice to speak of during the Olympics but who travelling on a vacation can budget an extra 70% for lodging in shitsville LA? The democrats are insane, everything they do “for the working man” results in less jobs for “the working man” and businesses collapsing from increased wages and associated costs. These communists have never run a business and when things inevitably go to hell the can’t understand where the tax income has gone.


33 posted on 05/25/2025 5:44:31 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: SeekAndFind

These are the days of the $400 and $500 MOTEL rooms for major events. Maybe LA is trying for $1000.


34 posted on 05/25/2025 5:44:43 AM PDT by jimfree (My 22 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Peter Ueberroth saved the Olympics of 1984 from the City bureaucracy turning it into a farce. They even MADE money on the event.

LA is a far cry from that city now.

35 posted on 05/25/2025 5:50:09 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The “unintended consequence” (what Democrat/Communists are famous for) of this $38 minimum wage is to finish the complete destruction of LA that the Fauci Flu fell short on.


36 posted on 05/25/2025 5:50:45 AM PDT by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t see the problem here. LA voters wanted this and they are going to get it. If they don’t like it, they can go somewhere else.


37 posted on 05/25/2025 6:12:35 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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They’ll bring LA with them.


38 posted on 05/25/2025 6:14:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: frank ballenger

EJ Korvette’s was named that because the guys that owned were Korean War Veterans.

Their record album prices were a little bit higher that Two Guys, so I spent my meager earnings there instead.

Two Guys from Harrison was named that because when they first started undercutting appliance prices, their competitors referred to them as “those two S.O.B.s from Harrison”


39 posted on 05/25/2025 6:17:19 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The Olympics in LA will be a clusterfuck of epic proportions.
40 posted on 05/25/2025 6:43:40 AM PDT by Bosco127 (Bosco)
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