The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to boost the minimum wage of workers at privately owned hospitals to $25 an hour.
Kaiser Permanente workers won their top priority — scrapping a two-tier pay system — in the settlement reached Saturday, averting a strike.“We are urging an economic analysis to better understand the impacts on the city, workers, healthcare providers and economy,” said Denise Kniter, policy manager with the Los Angeles County Business Federation.
Hospital representatives argued that the measure was arbitrary and unfair because it did not cover workers at all L.A. health facilities. A coalition opposed to the wage measure contended that it would exclude employees at 90% of healthcare facilities in the city, drive up costs, and pull workers away from health facilities that serve disadvantaged Angelenos.
In response to questions about which facilities were included, SEIU-UHW spokesperson Renée Saldaña said “city government cannot legally set rates for county and state workers.” Other efforts are underway at the state level to fund a wage boost at community clinics, which “did not make record profits during the pandemic,” Saldaña said.
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