By contrast, Biden said, the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour is inadequate. He chatted with employees as they assembled soap dispensers.
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Biden, Garcetti, and County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl toured the Bobrick Washroom Equipment Inc. factory on Wednesday afternoon before holding a press conference about living wages.
Biden’s southland appearance came the same day UC President Janet Napolitano rolled out a plan for the system to increase its minimum pay to $15 per hour. Biden didn’t directly address the complaints about peer review, but said that “the fact that you’re voluntarily submitting all your tests to the FDA demonstrates the confidence you have in what you’re doing”.
A panel formed at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s behest Wednesday recommended that the minimum wage for fast-food workers be raised to $15 an hour by 2018 in New York City and three years later in the rest of the state. While in the factory, Biden joked about his upcoming loss of job and hailed the rise in the minimum wage for L.A. County workers. Hernandez said his son is getting his master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania, and is interning this summer at the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.
Secret Service agents and Los Angeles Police Department officers interviewed the man, who was identified as 62-year-old Larry Ira Estrin, a resident of Los Angeles, and he was placed under arrest for possession of a loaded weapon, police said.
Security on Biden’s Southern California swing has been tighter than for the vice president’s other recent events. The Los Angeles Times reported that a man with a gun was detained near the venue at about noon.
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Estrin, of Los Angeles, did not appear to be a political protester and may have simply forgotten he had the weapon in the auto, police said.
