A minimum wage boost for tourism workers in the city of Los Angeles is going into effect after the City Clerk announced Monday that a referendum to overturn it failed to gather enough valid signatures.

The news is the latest step in a saga that started when the L.A. City Council passed a $30 hourly pay increase for airport and hotel workers by 2028 earlier this year .

A group of business interests backed by Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and a hotel group launched a referendum in response to bring the issue to the voters. That campaign temporarily halted the wage increase from going into effect.

The group, the L.A. Alliance for Tourism, Jobs and Progress, submitted more than 140,000 signatures. In response, the powerful hotel workers union Unite Here Local 11 launched

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