{"id":12488,"date":"2025-06-25T03:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12488\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T03:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:40:10","slug":"25-tourism-worker-minimum-wage-gets-pushback-from-regional-chamber-of-commerce-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12488\/","title":{"rendered":"$25 tourism-worker minimum wage gets pushback from regional Chamber of Commerce \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/blog\/peoples-business-june-24-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal to hike the<\/a> minimum wage to $25 for tourism workers is being spearheaded by San Diego City Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, however, the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce held a news conference, during which officials said the proposal would hurt businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will eliminate jobs, shut our businesses and cripple the industries that power San Diego&#8217;s economy,\u201d said chamber president Chris Cate.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would cover tourism, event-centers and janitorial-service workers.<\/p>\n<p>Some employers were on hand Tuesday to voice their displeasure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would not be able to stay in business,&#8221; said local business owner Steven Pinard. &#8220;It would be that simple,\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Despite the pushback, San Diego City Councilman Sean Elo-Rivera is defending his proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSan Diego is very expensive,&#8221; Elo-Rivera said. &#8220;We know that. Unfortunately, the wages have not kept up with expenses. So we&#8217;ve got folks who are seeing their rent increase by 40% over a five-year period, and their wages certainly aren&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The proposal needs still needs to pass a municipal hurdle before going to the full city council. If it were to be passed by the full city council, it would not take effect until January 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A proposal to hike the minimum wage to $25 for tourism workers is being spearheaded by San Diego&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,64,1582,276,3549,7724,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-12488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-city-council","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114741931118399582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}