First it was Seattle. Then came San Francisco. Now it's Los Angeles. In a vote earlier today, lawmakers in L.A. moved toward adopting a $15 local minimum wage by 2020, setting it up to become the third major city to raise its pay floor to that level, and handing a major win to labor activists who had been lobbying for the hike.* This may be a sign that, much more than an experiment confined to the Pacific Northwest and Bay Area, the idea of a $15 minimum is "going mainstream," at least in certain kinds of largely liberal coastal cities, as Paul Sonn, general counsel at the National Employment Law Project, told Al Jazeera America.
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