In a unanimous Tuesday vote, a Los Angeles City Council committee voted to authorize a study on nearly doubling the minimum wage for employees of large hotels in the nation’s second-largest city. The L.A. proposal is one of several municipal moves toward raising wages well above the 5-year-old federal rate of $7.25; at $15.37, it would set a local hotel industry wage floor far beyond the $10.10 proposed by congressional Democrats.

“I’m 38 years old,” hotel worker Melinda Miyashiro told the committee, according to her prepared remarks. “My husband and I want to start a family – but I can’t see how we could afford it.”

The proposal for a study undefined on the “citywide economic impact” of a hotel wage hike, due in 45 days undefined was introduced last week by L.A. council members Mike Bonin, Nury Martinez and Curren Price. The proposed $15.37 mandate is backed by a coalition including the hotel union UNITE HERE (my former employer), and the union-backed nonprofit Los Angeles Alliance for a New 

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