Posted on 01/12/2010 9:55:34 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
Chicago's McCormick Place convention center is one of the largest convention halls in the world. With a total of 2,670,000 square feet of exhibition space and clocking in at a building cost of nearly one billion dollars it had better be one of the biggest, after all Chicago does do things big. Sadly that includes big corruption and unfortunately that corruption is turning "the city that works" into the city that lost its jobs.
This week Chicago's Mayor Richard "King" Daley railed against the conditions that have made Chicago's convention business a wreck these days. Along with Governor Pat Quinn, Daley has unveiled new work rules that would prevent unions from striking and would change union policies so that the high, high costs of bringing a convention to Chicago might come down...
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Sounds like Chicago operates like the Javits Center in NYC where if an exhibitor wants to plug in something they need to bring in a Union electrician.
Used to attend the very large RSNA meeting at McCormick Place every November. Companies and corporations shell out big bucks and unions extract large fees for carpet rental, electrical hookups, chair rentals, etc.....what a racket.
Unions + golden egg = dead goose.
I am just curious. Does anyone know when was the last time Chicago had a Mayor whose last name was NOT ‘Daley’ ???
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