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Big-box 'living wage' passed, Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times ^
| July 26, 2006
| FRAN SPIELMAN
Posted on 07/26/2006 2:39:50 PM PDT by jaydubya2
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Hope Daley will finally do the right thing a veto this new embarassment from the Chicago City Council.
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:39:52 PM PDT
by
jaydubya2
To: jaydubya2
The court just struck down the same law in Maryland.
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:42:58 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: jaydubya2
Didn't a Federal court just overturn that Maryland law demanding that Wal Mart provide certain benefits?
To: Gabz
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:43:23 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: jaydubya2
I hope Wal-Mart gives them the finger and walks away.
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:44:10 PM PDT
by
Normal4me
To: jaydubya2
Daley will kiss the union's backside to get re-elected. (He has to have the labor union support to be re-elected and he is a good liberal)) I predict no veto.
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:45:17 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
To: jaydubya2
I hope Wal Mart closes its shops and lets Chicago rot.
Probably horrible theft problems there compared to red states.
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:45:30 PM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(God Protect Israel.)
To: jaydubya2
Another idea is for walmart to agree and then refuse to hire any unions to build them.
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:46:26 PM PDT
by
Normal4me
To: dynachrome
The union stores in Chicago pay a starting salary of less than $10 an hour (before union dues), yet they want to hold Wal-mart to a high standard.
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:48:47 PM PDT
by
jaydubya2
To: jaydubya2
My whole feeling about this is that Chicago is entitled to cut its nose off to spite its face if it wants to. Actions have consequences--many of them unintended.
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:49:33 PM PDT
by
Clara Lou
(A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
To: MeanWestTexan
I hope Wal Mart closes its shops and lets Chicago rot.There are no WalMarts in Chicago. Now you know why.
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:51:32 PM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Why are protectionists so bad at math?)
To: jaydubya2
Instead of wrapping himself in President Roosevelts cloak, he should be wearing a little cap with a feather. This is Sherwood Forest. My colleague is Robin Hood. What he wants to do is steal from the rich and give to the poor, he said. I'm sick of people mischarachterizing Robin Hood all the time. The point that is so frequently missed, is that R.H. took back money robbed from the people, in the form of oppressive taxation, in the first place! In short, "the rich" weren't his targets, but rather the oppressive, corrupt government.
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:51:36 PM PDT
by
TChris
(Banning DDT wasn't about birds. It was about power.)
To: jaydubya2
"Big-box retailers would be required to pay their Chicago employees a living wage at least $10 an hour and $3 in benefits by 2010. By 2010. Most companies can pack and move in 3.5 years.
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:51:58 PM PDT
by
blam
To: jaydubya2
Big win for the unions, really bad for the lower income consumers of chicagoland
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:52:26 PM PDT
by
lumber1
(It is not what yo do now, but what they will do later with what you've done now that matters.)
To: jaydubya2
I believe that the union's pay is directly attached to the minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up $2.00, the union's wages also go up $2.00. No wonder that the union's want the wages raised.
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:52:31 PM PDT
by
FISHBOAT
(Just have to dance!)
To: TChris
Well, Chicago City Aldermen rarely make accurate statments ;)
To: jaydubya2
He presented charts that showed the average Wal-Mart employee is paid $7.70 an hour and $16,016 a year, while Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott is paid $16,826 an hour (figuring on a 40-hour week) and $34.9 million a year. Sooooo, if the CEO agreed to work for free, that wouldn't even result in a penny an hour raise for the typical worker, would it?
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:53:17 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Toddsterpatriot
I do.
Keeping it safe for the "company stores" for those stuck on their Democrat masters' plantations.
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:54:33 PM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(God Protect Israel.)
To: lepton
Yeah.
Let's just pay a stock boy $34.9 million a year.That'll solve the problem!
/s
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:55:00 PM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: jaydubya2
The union stores in Chicago pay a starting salary of less than $10 an hour (before union dues), yet they want to hold Wal-mart to a high standard. Does not surprise me. The starting wage at or local Walmart is $9.35 an hour. At the union shops it is $7.50.
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posted on
07/26/2006 2:55:31 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty)
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