(Chicago Mayor) Daley urges Wal-Mart to raise minimum wage

[Ed Barrow]

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Mayor Daley today urged Wal-Mart to sweeten the pot even further — by raising the company’s offer of an $8.75-an-hour minimum wage or increasing pay after one year on the job — to break the stalemate that has stalled its $1 billion plan to build “several dozen” Chicago stores.

One day after hailing Wal-Mart’s “urban minimum wage” as the highest of any Chicago area retailer, Daley got on the phone to Wal-Mart executives and urged them to raise the bar even higher.

The $8.75-an-hour minimum Chicago wage would be 50 cents above Illinois’ minimum wage, but far short of the $11.03-an-hour unions initially demanded. It’s 50 cents shy of the $9.25-an-hour compromise for which labor would have settled, sources said.

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The mayor’s last-ditch plea comes amid frenzied lobbying to line up the eight votes needed to win Zoning Committee approval Thursday for a proposed Pullman Park Wal-Mart.

Read more: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2425502,wal-mart-daley-minimum-wage-062310.article

[SunnySong]

1. Less than $12 dollars an hour is a crime in Chicago. Chicago needs to raise its

Min wage for the city stat. This is an embarressment.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Yup. It needs to be set at $20/hour

Living wages, not minimum wages.

If Wal-Fart can't live with it, then fuck it.

And also fuck Daley. He's stale for mayor of Chicago. Too much corruption.

Hawkeye-X

[Cal Carpenter]

3. Living wages indeed

The rights of people to make a living, to exist in a society, far outweigh the right of Walmart to make even more profit for their board and shareholders (most of whom wouldn't know a day's work if it bit them in the ass).

Walmart's a great case study but even if they throw these crumbs at Chicago the fight is a much bigger one.

[Hawkeye-X]

5. Agreed and one other thing - Wal-Mart needs to be unionized

All of their stores!

[Sherman A1]

7. +1000

:toast:

[HopeHoops]

4. "WHAT!?!?! We don't have to pay more than 12 cents a day in China! Exrortion!

WalMart means never having to deal on a level playing field.

[rantormusing]

6. I saw an ad in the Chicago Defender,

it was talking about high unemployment, and chicago is destroying good jobs for the community. Further down, i saw it was Walmart, the nerve of some people. That issue also had an anti teachers union segment about keeping class sizes 35 and under.

[Wednesdays]

8. As they say in Japan, "Rotsa ruck!"

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