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December 3, 2007
This Wednesday, tell City Hall you support livable wages in San Diego's General Plan!
In a blatant giveaway to the tourism industry, Mayor Jerry Sanders is trying to strip San Diego's General Plan update of all references to the growth of low-wage service industries and the need to create livable wage jobs. The previous version of the plan - the City's guiding principles for land use - included goals to create living wage jobs, especially in the tourism industry.
The Mayor also made specific changes to the plan that pave the way for the city to provide "incentives and subsidies" to hotels that create poverty wage jobs without health benefits.
As now written, the plan promotes economic prosperity for hotel developers, not for the workers!
Please attend a City Council committee meeting on updating the General Plan on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at City Hall, 202 C St., San Diego.
Testimony on the economic prosperity section is expected to begin about 10:30 a.m.
Insist that our City promote livable wages for low-income workers! Insist on a plan that addresses the growing income gap in San Diego! Don't let the Mayor give hotel developers a free pass on their responsibility to provide solid, middle-class jobs.
If you cannot attend the meeting, please send a letter to the committee members.
Click here for more information and to see the wording Sanders slashed from the proposed update.
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