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-------------------- Compromise circumvents battle over living wage --------------------

In an agreement with labor, the mayor and the Chamber of Commerce, the L.A. City Council rescinds the law and orders new legislation.

By Joe Mathews and Duke Helfand Times Staff Writers

February 1 2007

Even as the City Council unanimously rescinded a law Wednesday extending the so-called living wage ordinance to workers at Los Angeles International Airport-area hotels, council members ordered new legislation that would leave the door open to further expansions of the ordinance.

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