An expensive fight over health worker pay in two Southern California cities appears to have ended in a draw, with each side claiming a victory and a loss.
Suzanne Jimenez, the union’s political director, said the union still plans to pursue a $25 minimum wage in other cities and, eventually, statewide.George Greene, president of the Hospital Association of Southern California, said in a statement that hospitals support “fair wages” for health workers but that their pay should be discussed at a “state or regional level.
Union officials argue that a $25 minimum wage is necessary to retain and attract workers in a sector that has been understaffed and overworked throughout the covid-19 pandemic. The minimum wage in most of Los Angeles County is $16.04 per hour. But for a single adult with no children, the living wage — the amount that person would need to cover typical expenses such as food, housing, and transportation in the county — is $21.89 hourly, or about $45,500 a year, according. Occupations such as “healthcare support” generally pay around $33,000 annually in the county, according to the same tool.
Hospitals campaigned heavily against the union’s proposal and argued it would create “unequal pay” for staff at private and public facilities. An analysis commissioned by the California Hospital Association estimated that instituting a $25 minimum wage in the 10 cities originally targeted by the union would have raised costs for private facilities in those communities by
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