A group of workers and leaders from the Alameda County community and labor movement Thursday plans to formally announce that they are filing a new ballot initiative campaign. The coalition wants Alameda County voters to pass a law that would raise the countywide minimum wage to $30 an hour. La rge businesses with more than 100 employees and $100 million in revenue would be required to pay a $30-an-hour minimum wage by 2030. Smaller businesses with fewer than 25 workers would have 10 years to reach that benchmark. The countywide minimum wage currently stands at about $16 an hour. The organizers, the Oakland and Alameda County Living Wage for All campaign, cite the MIT living wage calculator, which shows that in a two-parent, two-child household, both parents must work, and each must earn over $44 an hour to cover the basic cost of living. Los Angeles already requires hotel and airport workers to be paid $30 an hour by July 2028. In 2024, Californians, by a slim majority, said no to a ballot measure that would increase the state’s minimum wage to $18 an hour over concerns that it would increase the costs of goods and services. ...read more read less