Los Angeles’ organized-labor cadres seemed to be all over the metropolis on Tuesday in their quest for the living wage. Workers and union officials attended a meeting of the city’s Board of Airports to lobby for better pay at LAX, made a strong presentation to the City Council the same morning on USC’s four-year resistance to the struggle of its food-service workers (see accompanying story), and further lobbied the council and the mayor on the same subject later that day.But at the County Hall of Administration, where most of the day’s action had been foreseen, all was quiet on the living-wage front. This was because the final consideration of the county’s own living-wage law had been delayed a week at the request of conservative Supervisor Mike Antonovich, who wanted a chance to vote (probably against) the measure, but was out that day on jury duty.
Source: County Living | L.A. Weekly