June 23, 2006

THE UNDEMOCRAT:

Daley: Special big-box rules might hurt city (FRAN SPIELMAN, 6/23/06, Chicago Sun-Times)

If the City Council mandates wage and benefit standards for "big-box" retailers on the heels of banning foie gras, it will send a dangerous message to business: Stay away from Chicago, Mayor Daley warned Thursday.

One day after the City Council's Finance Committee ordered big-box retailers to pay employees who work more than 10 hours a week at least $10 an hour and $3 an hour in benefits, Daley signaled his intention to block a final vote at Wednesday's City Council meeting.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 23, 2006 9:06 AM
Comments

By what right does the Chicago city council dictate what wages a private business must pay its employees, or has Chicago gone the way of other homogeneous entities (see the Balkans) and spun off on its own? Dare we hope it could be thus!

Posted by: erp at June 23, 2006 9:40 AM

erp: By the same token, what right does the Federal Government have to set a minimum wage?

Posted by: Bartman at June 23, 2006 10:00 AM

Live by the piggish public employee corruption culture, die by the public employee corruption culture.

Terminator-like, Daley's vaunted machine is taking on a life of it's own. San Francisco here we come...

But Hey, 50 miles west, Hastert is getting rich off of $207 million Porkways that boost the value of his property.

No worries, everything is fine.

Posted by: Bruno at June 23, 2006 12:50 PM

Bartman, Beats me?

Posted by: erp at June 23, 2006 2:19 PM
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