Wal-Mart vs. Chicago
It seems that Chicago mayor Richard Daley has vetoed a bill that would force “big-box” retailers (such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot and others) to pay a higher wage and benefit amount than the national minimum wage in Chicago stores. The retailers balked at this and started cancelling plans to build stores in Chicago. In response to these cancelled plans, Mayor Daley decided to veto the bill put forth by City Council because losing the stores could be far more harmful than the low wages.
Daley said that losing the stores would “drive jobs and businesses from our city, penalizing neighborhoods that need additional economic activity the most.”
But it doesn’t stop there.
The City Council is threatening to pass a “veto override” later this week to enact the plan, regardless of Daley’s thoughts on the subject as a pro-union Democrat.
Now, The Wall Street Journal reports the following about this City Council.
- It turns out that the wage bill’s chief sponsor, Alderman Joe Moore, shops at suburban big-box retail stores, for the usual reason. His campaign committee has purchased $30,589 worth of supplies at big-box retailers outside the city, according to disclosure forms. Alderman Moore isn’t alone out there with a cart among the high stacks. A review of Illinois State Board of Elections disclosure forms finds that the 35 aldermen who voted to stick it to the “big box” retailers have spent $114,000 patronizing these non-Chicago stores.
I know it is really tough to soften the image of a giant retailer that doesn’t really pay all that well and has a propensity to hire illegal immigrants via a subcontractor to clean their stores while driving the proverbial “mom and pops” right out of business (allegedly?), but this City Council might have done it.
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