The new Living Wage Ordinance for contractors would raise the minimum to $13.25 an hour next year and $15 in 2023. Some direct city employees earn far less, and the council can’t change that on its own.
Letters sent this month are an early step in winding down pandemic programs.
The strike comes a week after the City Council advanced a proposal to mandate a minimum $15 an hour wage for city contractors, but not for direct city employees
GEO Group, the private prison corporation that runs the facility, denied the allegations.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell originally said that all the money from the fine should go to the Sewerage and Water Board.
The suit alleges that the officers were racially profiling the group when they stopped them.
In their annual report, watchdog group Court Watch NOLA called the practice "egregious."
“We have to be serious about stopping all types of violent crime, and that includes crimes committed by wealthy developers,” Councilwoman Kristin Palmer said.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s office said that renewing the tax isn’t Cantrell’s “preference,” and that she wanted to propose a new set of property taxes next year instead.
The vote was 42-18 in favor of unionization.
