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TUA Endorses Fair Games: A New Deal for our Future

With the volleyball competition set to take place at the Honda center, will Anaheim prioritize the community, or will it be business as usual?

Read on for a summary from UNITE HERE Local 11, with further information available here.

Los Angeles needs a New Deal for the Olympic and Paralympic Games and other mega events. This must include:

  • A Transparent and Open Process: No major decisions, including those set out in the Host City Contract, Games Agreements, and Venue Agreements, should be made without total transparency and fulsome opportunities for the public to give input.
  • City-and-Region Wide Union Jobs: All Olympic and Paralympic jobs in the region—from those who make garments emblazoned with the Olympics logo to those who clean hotel rooms to those who stage the Games to the athletes in the Games—must have Union Jobs that pay a livable wage.
  • 50,000 Units of Worker Housing: Los Angeles and surrounding cities should commit themselves and make concrete plans to build 50,000 units of workforce housing, through at least the following.
  • A $5 billion commitment from IOC and LA28 to build housing for workers like teachers, fire fighters, and hotel workers.
  • A $1 billion commitment from tourism industry corporations to build worker housing.
  • $500 Million Per Year Permanent Housing Fund
  • A Paris-Style Olympic Village that Transitions to Housing: LA28 Chairman Casey Wasserman promised that if LA won its bid to host the Olympics, it would build an Olympic Village with 17,000 beds for athletes, coaches and staff that would then be converted into permanent housing for residents, but has since backed away from this pledge. Paris managed to accomplish a similar housing construction program for the 2024 Games in which the city built a newly built Olympic Village for athletes that then became permanent social housing for working class people.
  • Build Housing on Public Land: Every local city in Los Angeles County should make vacant or underutilized land available to meet the housing crisis facing our region.
  • Moratorium on AirBNB: We must enact a moratorium on AirBNB and other short term rental corporations that deplete our housing stock. Such a moratorium would make approximately 10,000 units of housing available for residents.

By taking these steps, Los Angeles can ensure that the upcoming mega-events benefit the communities that will host them and the workers that will make them possible, not just corporate sponsors and the billionaire class.