ProGov21 Policy Library

The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) surveyed nearly 300 passenger service workers to determine the effects of contracting on public safety and service quality at the Los Angeles International Airport. Results show that airlines are compromising security at LAX by failing...

This report evaluates the impact of Los Angeles's living wage ordinance, which covered hotels near the airport, as well as the implementation of a union collective bargaining agreement at some of these hotels. The report finds that these initiative provide an important model for local...

This ordinance requires hotel employers to pay hotel workers in Los Angeles's Airport Hospitality Enhancement Zone at least $9.39 per hour with health benefits or $10.64 per hour without health benefits. These rates shall be adjusted annually to correspond with adjustments to the...

According to the Economic Development Department, 43 percent of the people who work in hotels in Los Angeles earn wages that put them below the federal poverty line. This ordinance adds Article 6 to Chapter XVIII of the Los Angeles Municipal Code requiring a minimum wage for hotel...

This report outlines the failed strategies the City of Long Beach took toward investing in tourism without ensuring this investment of public dollars produced good jobs. The report then makes suggestions for address the problem....

This report details a plan for LA to exapand its Living Wage Ordinance to include healthcare coverage for airport workers....