The fat cat union slugs will sit back and say they won. Unions don´t care a damn about those they represent, they only care about collecting dues.

Maybe some liberals will buy the place and re-open it at a tremendous loss.
LOL!
I doubt it.

Dirty little secret..when the minimum wage goes up, ALL union wages go up accordingly.
Check their contracts.

#3, I have 31 years experience as a labor neutral, and I have never seen a union contract (collective bargaining agreement) with language that tied rates of pay to minimum wage rates. Some are tied to the consumer price indes, but not the minimum wage..The real impact when minimum wage rates are increased is to put upward pressure on all salaries.

Well, at least these union people can gloat about their glorious victory as they fill out their unemployment forms.

Right, #4, the union increases are not tied to them but the unions argue that since minimums increased their wages need to go up accordingly.

The hotels with more than 100 rooms will probably contract their cleaning out to a service who will pay less than $13/hour to the cleaners.

Once again a pencil outwits a sledgehammer; wait until the drug testing policy gets invoked.

Ya´ gotta love the creativity.

Once again, the electorate proves their stupidity an unions prove their greed. Both seem to lack a basic understanding of economics. It`s all what the market will bare. We can live our lives in capitalism and be free to work where we can get the best deal or resign ourselves to socialism/communism where profit is banned an everyone makes the same money but shortages of goods and services are plentiful.

Perhaps many don`t remember the old days of the Soviet Union where 100 people lined up outside the local market to bid on five skinny chickens.

We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.

Another example of when one side changes the rules, the other side finds a creative new way to play the game.

I think employers should just pay all employees the same rate, that would be fair/ s

Your Holiday cheerlessness in brought to you by DUH - Democrat Union Hacks.

This should be a lesson to "legislators" (aka tyrants), stick your finger in the pie and an cherry is pushed out the other side. Actions have consequences... and just why were you sticking your finger in the pie in the first place?

It´s not just the minimum wage tax that reduces supply:

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/12/15/those-cigarette-taxes-are-sure-working-out-eh/

Good article with interesting reader comments such as these:

Nothing can be done about illegal aliens in Cook County, but they have the resources to conduct 800 raids a month to combat the black market for cigarettes.

Going up against mostly lawful small businesses is much, much safer than heading into those communities organized by Obama where there are illegal guns killing tens of people every weekend.

#4, unions in the rust belt and the northeastern states receive pay increases when the minimum wage goes up. Did in the IBEW and longshoreman´s. Check it out. Never mind, most of the jobs have moved to right to work states.

Why not just pay everyone $20, or $40? I love it when non-business people tell business people how to run their businesses. They just know so much. Hey, let´s make them lower their room rates to $25 per night!

And in California of all places. California went head over heels for Zero. Let then suffer the rewards.

The hotel has my support and approval.

More of this is to come nationwide.
Thank you libnut zero-suckers.

Well, well . . . the union hacks won another battle, however . . . winning the war doesn´t look so promising!

You break it, you own it. Congrats to the Long Beach city council.

Liberal government demands business pay higher wages.

Business cuts worker numbers and/or hours to maintain profit margins.

Worker blames the business.

Ignorance reigns. Votes Obama.

Wait -- laying off all the employees is "scaling back"? LAT editors don´t have authority to check for irrational statements, I guess?

#3, #4: I´ve also read that [some] union contracts are pegged, to multiples of the minimum wage. Sorry, can´t provide specific citations.

#10: Not just "basic economics." I think they have trouble with "basic counting."

#12: How about offering the union a percentage of the profits in a block payment, and they can divvy it up between the members? Decide their wages for themselves? Heh, heh, heh.

Since when does a majority of idiot voters have the right to tell a private citizen how he must conduct his business. This is nuts.

Every "working" person should be paid at least a million dollars a year. That would solve everything. s/o They will simply hire a cleaning staff from a third party company.

#23, that is my question too. Those who do not pay or will not be paying a tax should not be allowed to vote for others to pay it or to raise it on others.

NY always follows CA´s stupidity. NOW I know why NY wants to increase minimum wage and tie it to inflation. That way when hyper-inflation hits, minimum wage can be $200/hour.

Ha hahahahahahahahahha!