Airport and hotel workers rallied at City Hall Tuesday to urge enforcement of the so-called Olympic Wage ordinance, and celebrated a recent failed attempt to force a vote on the policy.

The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk announced Monday that of the 140,774 signatures submitted by the L.A. Alliance for Tourism, Jobs and Progress to force a referendum, 84,007 were deemed valid, short of the 92,998 needed.

There were 2,339 signatures determined to be duplicates and 17,082 signatures were withdrawn, according to the Recorder/County Clerk.

Members of the Defend the Wage LA Coalition — composed of SEIU-United Service Workers West, Unite Here Local 11, and Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy — gathered on the south lawn steps of City Hall to discuss what the minimum wag

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