For all who do not know the Big Box issue is what the City Council of Chicago is trying to pass for big corporations such as Wal-Mart to pay their employees $13/hour. When the council voted this in a couple weeks ago Wal-Mart backed out of Chicago and said they will focus on subarbs. DO you think that Chicago has gone too far and that they can use the jobs no matter what the pay is?
2006-09-13 05:34:44 · 3 answers · asked by Michael R 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Rick Mayor Dailey is going to VETO it today and it is I was wrong it is $10/hr plus $3 in benfits
2006-09-13 05:47:25 · update #1
First of all Mayor Daley vetoed it, because they did nothing on the south or west side when wal-mart and target came. but now that the North Side is getting a target they care about a "living wage"
Overall I think it is a great Idea but will also mean the prices cant be as low seeing how most retail the margin is less then 3% but we all deserve to make a living wage, and furthermore it is not 13 dollars an hour it is 12 dollars an hour including benefits, and so if you offer subsidized medical ben. then it only 8-9 dollars an hour
2006-09-13 05:43:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just more of the unions trying to keep WalMart down. They can't stand it that someone has created a system that offers low prices to customers and high wages to employees. WalMart is almost always the highest paying employer in their market. WalMart promotes from within based on effort and intelligence, not just tenure.
They've proven that unions are no longer necessary, so the unions are trying to destroy WalMart.
Chicago has once again shot itself in the foot with their tactics, and has also hurt its citizens. Now the people in low income neighborhoods would could have benefited from low priced goods and plentiful jobs will have neither.
Any minimum wage is bad for the economy. Labor is worth what it is worth, and forcing an employer to pay more than an employee is worth destroys businesses. Why not make the minimum wage six figures so that everyone can be rich?
2006-09-13 12:35:34 · answer #2 · answered by Robby216 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The living wage idea is not well thought out. If I living wage law was pass, it would become the de facto minimum wage. Those people will still have financial problems because all of the other prices would have been raised, and so, any potential benefit is mute.
2006-09-14 18:46:37 · answer #3 · answered by Lea 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋