This video produced by the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy documents elements of the Living Wage campaign in Los Angeles. After months of organizing and outreach, the campaign crested in December 1996, with a holidays-themed action at City Hall. Dressed as the ghost of Jacob Marley from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” community member Dave Clennon entered City Hall with members of the coalition and addressed the Council, warning theme not to go the way of scrooge by opposing the ordinance. The ordinance, which raised the wages of workers who were employed on city contracts or at city-owned properties, passed an important committee vote that day and was eventually voted into law in March 1997.
View more images from the Los Angeles Living Wage campaign here.
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