Council’s support for tourism worker wage hike blasted

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Council’s support for tourism worker wage hike blasted

“Proposal to create $25 minimum wage for San Diego’s tourism workers is moving forward” (Feb. 27): Since when does Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera get to determine how much a private business has to pay its employees? How ironic is it that the citizens of San Diego can’t seem to tell the City Council what to do, but it looks like the council thinks it has been elected to run privately owned businesses. The council is clearly overstepping its autho…