An emerging compromise could also yield a truce in the state's kidney dialysis wars.
California health care workers could get a $25 minimum wage as a key labor union and employers close in on a sweeping deal.
“We’re encouraged by talks and hopeful we can finalize an agreement soon that will provide dialysis caregivers with additional wage increases while also protecting patients from the ongoing threats at the ballot and in the legislature that put them at risk,” California Dialysis Council spokesperson Jaycob Bytel said in a written statement.
But a compromise would cap a multiyear battle over industry wages. SEIU-UHW ramped up the pressure in recent years by pushing a series of local $25 wage ordinances around the state — including in Los Angeles — and sought to cut a deal with hospitals last year in exchange for relief from seismic retrofit requirements.
Lawmakers may have been motivated to act by a looming ballot fight. It was widely expected that SEIU-UHW President Dave Regan, a prolific backer of ballot initiative politics, would launch a campaign if the bill failed. Regan is already pursuing three measures in the San Diego area, and the Los Angeles City Council has already put an SEIU-UHW-backed measure on the ballot limiting hospital executives’ pay.
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