Hotel Workers Back Living Wage (12/13/11)

The 30,000-member New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, which endorsed the mayor in 2005 and 2009, will today urge the City Council to pass the controversial living-wage bill, joining a growing number of private-sector unions.

“The debate on this legislation has run its course,” Hotel Trades President Peter Ward said in a statement. “The moment for action has arrived.”

Crain's New York is reporting on the story. Read it here (subscription required)

For more on this development from the Living Wage NYC Coalition, read the full release.