Organized Labor Digging In Against Wal-Mart's Chicago Push

Crain's Chicago Business:

Opposition to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is stiffening at City Hall even as the retailer pitches its expansion as an antidote to recession.
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The reason: Organized labor, a powerful Chicago interest, isn't budging from its stance that Wal-Mart shouldn't build stores unless it agrees to allow workers to form unions. Mr. Daley wants to keep labor's support to draw the 2016 Olympics to Chicago.

Read the whole story: Crain's Chicago Business

Comments

[clsmithj]

I'm all for Wal-Mart in low income communities. It's gone on to long without that many Wal-Mart establishments in that city and area.

[carnelld]

Good luck with that. Wal Mart has bullied its way into communities all across Amerifca.

[NCRDIBULL]

the proposed 5 stores will be union built, plus all the union workers the city employs for periphery work.. WalMart will then employ about 2000 .. The Chicago CookCounty sales tax rape is 10.25 %.. lop in property taxes .....

[Cheryl44]

No WalMart, No Olympics,No Museum in Grant Park.

[1manisland]

I don't know if I have ever agreed or disagreed with you Cheryl, but I like your thinking on this one. I'm still waiting for City Hall to name all these people who are on Daley's Olympic Bandwagon. Outside of his buddies, all I hear is silence and crickets occasionally.

[47th]

Cheryl44 I totally agree, especially on the Olympic scam. Out side of Daley and a timid, lazy Chicago media, there is little support for the Olympics, and zero support for paying for the Olympics!

[ThirdSection]

It's hopeful to see that organized labor has some power somewhere.