Posted on 10/06/2011 8:58:46 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Chicago considers requiring 'Living wage' for retailers at airports
Posted: October 6th, 2011 10:10 AM CDT
FRAN SPIELMAN. City Hall Reporter. fspielman@suntimes.comChicago Sun-Times
O'Hare and Midway Airport retailers would be required to pay their 1,500 employees a "living wage" of $11.18-an-hour - even if it means raising the sky-high prices they charge their captive audience of air travelers - under a plan that's gaining political steam.
During a rally before Wednesday's City Council meeting, 18 aldermen stood shoulder-to-shoulder with members of Unite Here Local 1 to support an ordinance timed to coincide with Mayor Rahm Emanuel's concession makeover at both airports. It would close a legal loophole that has allowed airport concessionaires to avoid paying the "living wage" long applied to city contractors. Fran Spielman
The Employment Impact of a Comprehensive Living Wage Law,
Two main conclusions can be drawn from this report. First, the minimum wage increase could cause 612,783 workers to lose their jobs, with approximately one-third of the job losses in the retail trade industry. This would cause an annual income loss to all affected workers of $8.3 billion. Second, the cost to employers would be quite substantial. The wage mandate would raise labor costs by $22.8 billion per year (even after adjusting for reduced employment), with the costs concentrated in the retail and service industries.
Lost in the living wage debate is the fact that failing to acquire even basic skills can mean a significant decrease in earnings potential. Many low-skill workers develop these skills at entry-level jobs often at the minimum wage. As their skill base increases, so do their wages. Enacting ultra-high “living wages” means denying low-skilled workers the skill-building opportunities they need to make a “living” for themselves and their families.
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Minimum wage laws keep people down. They are disincentive from going out and improving yourself to make more money. Government forces employers to pay people more to stay in mind and spirit-killing zombie jobs that they might otherwise be forced to get out of to make more money. Minimum wage laws are making millions of people into mind-numbed dependent zombies who will never really be alive.
This never works. All it ever does is kill jobs for people who need them, and penalizes companies by making them less profitable.
It’s like “affordable housing.” That doesn’t work either.
“Living wage”? The most idiotic thing I have ever heard after these same idiots proclaiming and asserting that an education, owning a home and a car, a job, etc. are human rights..... =.=
Will they ban me from bringing my own food/snacks/water/reading material?
-Yeah
"That'll be thirty-seven eighty-nine."
“Will they ban me from bringing my own food/snacks/water/reading material?”
Under the new TSA rules only “Infidel” or white cracker materials and food will be banned... sarc..
Muslim Woman Removed From Southwest Plane to Sue
Published October 06, 2011 | Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — A Muslim-American woman is suing Southwest Airlines for discrimination because she was removed from a plane by federal security agents.
Irum Abbasi of San Diego plans to announce the lawsuit Thursday.
Abbasi is a Pakistani immigrant who’s lived in the U.S. for a decade. She was on a flight from San Diego to San Jose in March when she says a flight attendant became concerned.
Abbasi, who was wearing a head scarf, told someone on her cell phone, “I have to go” because the plane was about to depart. But Abbasi says the attendant thought she said, “It’s a go.”
The mother of three was taken off the plane and briefly examined by TSA agents. She was placed on the next flight.
The airline later apologized. Abbasi has said she wants the crew disciplined.
Minimum wage in Illinois is already $8.25, and Chicago is a high cost of living area. Likely most of these places are already paying ten or eleven bucks to get help. A non-issue intended to make Democrats look generous.
Does this mean the airport $5.00 candy bar will now cost $15.00??
Held hostage at the airport. Cannot bring your ‘outside’ water bottles (drink at the fountains if you can find one).
Cannot get food etc., through the screening barriers - the only refreshments are those for sale at the retail outlets -beyond the screeners.
No Chicago for me, thanks.
“Cannot get food etc., through the screening barriers - the only refreshments are those for sale at the retail outlets -beyond the screeners.”
Jeesh. And I was going to bring peanut butter and a bowl of gravy onto the plane.....:)
Not sure about what you can and can’t bring through the checkpoint? Here’s a list of liquid, aerosol and gel items that you should put in your checked bag, ship ahead, or leave at home if they are above the permitted 3.4 oz.
Cranberry sauce
Cologne
Creamy dips and spreads
(cheeses, peanut butter, etc.)
Gift baskets with food items
(salsa, jams and salad dressings)
Gravy
Jams
Jellies
Lotions
Maple syrup
Oils and vinegars
Perfume
Salad dressing
Salsa
Sauces
Snowglobes
Soups
Wine, liquor and beer
Note: You can bring pies and cakes through the security checkpoint, but please be advised that they are subject to additional screening.
Eat before you fly and bring water in those three oz. bottles.
Let the market choose whether it wants to pay sky high food prices at the airport.
When electricity prices go through the roof for homes and businesses let’s see how long that will last.
Just a ploy to force the airport retailers to hire union members by pricing out nonunion labor.
It isn't just the minimum wage--similar things happen with other types of restrictions, such as "prevailing wage" laws which funnel government jobs to union cronies. Just try getting one of those jobs--you'd do it for less, but you can't. They'll only hire from the club at the higher wage.
Yes, and there will be a mandatory $100 minimum purchase for each passenger passing through the terminal.
And if the businesses complain, the Chicago Dem machine can trot out Hillary’s let-them-eat-cake reply: “I can’t save every undercapitalized entrepreneur in America.”
And then you go into the restroom, and you pour eight of those 3 oz. waters into your 1 qt. ziploc bag that held your 3 oz. toiletries...bwa ha ha...
And then you go sit in your seat and drink the water with a straw from that bag... and you see how long it takes the marshals to jump you...
Sorry, my poor husband is flying home tonight, after a miserable trip.
Okay. Then drink a bunch of water right before flight and then use the airplane lav a lot and get suspected of being a terrorist. Next thing you know you’ll be pinned down, hog tied, and given over to the authorities upon landing. LOL!
You can bring food through airport security, I’ve done it many times. You just can’t bring liquids through, except in those little containers and plastic baggies.
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