The Wal-Mart issue is heating up again. Wal-Mart has been trying to open new stores in Chicago. It has failed due to the nuclear warfare by radical unions, especially the SEIU, the union funded front organizations like Wal-Mart Watch, and their bought and paid for Alderman in the Chicago City Council.
The Aldermen do not care about social justice, social justice redistribution, or justice at all. Nor do they really care about wages and benefits. They do care about their campaign coffers. Their Friends of Boodle and Bribers for Boondoggle funds. Then there are the Friends and Family funds. The SEIU is very good at corrupting government to sing its tune.
This time the war on Wal-Mart is in in Chicago's Pullman neighborhood. The store scheduled to be built in Chatham has been stalled by the City Council on the direct orders of organized labor. Pullman Yards is a new development. It is a mixed use development on one 180 acres of a former steel plant. It is designed for residential, commercial, and recreational use. It is currently a retail wasteland.
Jewel and Dominick's, the dominant grocers in Chicago, have refused to put a store in the project. Target and Ikea also demurred. Wal-Mart decided to give it a go. With Wal-Mart as an anchor tenant other retailers would follow. But, Aldermen who have nothing to do with the ward are fighting tooth and nail against this store.
The tyrannical Chicago City Council wants to dictate wages and benefits to businesses. They want to do what the unions have not been able to in regards to Wal-Mart. They are doing what they are paid to do- by the unions. If Wal-mart is following the law on wages and labor practices, what right does the City Council have to impose a higher standard?
It is a shame. The citizens in Pullman and Chatham have spoken. They want stores. They want a place to shop, they want jobs, they want the ability to buy the necessities of life. They want a Wal-Mart. They want other stores too. They want to be treated like the rest of the city.
The Aldermen, who are elected by the people, are fighting against them. They are fighting for SEIU and other unions- who do not vote, who do not elect them. They are fighting against the very people who put them in office.
SEIU does not build anything, it does not manufacture anything, it does not provide jobs. All it does is buys politicians. Once they are bought, they better stay bought.
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Tags: boodle, boondoggle, Chatham, Chicago, Chicago Aldermen, Chicago City Council, Pullman, SEIU, Wal-Mart
You think Wal-mart, the destroyer of American jobs is some kind of salvation for our communities (not your's because you do not live anywhere near any of those communities and would never shop in a Wal-mart located in those communities). You do not care about our communities so stop posturing as though you do. The issue of Wal mart in the inner city is much more complicated than alderbugs and unions. HAve you ever stopped to think that Walmart has been in business for forty or fifty years or more and has been in the Chicago area for at least 20 and it has only been in the lest five years that they started talking about coming into the city? While both Jewel and Dominick have served our communities as long as they have been in business?
We should roll out the welcome mat for Walmart after they have forced company after company to relocate their factories to China so that all of those manufacturing jobs have gone over seas to be replaced by $6.60 an hour wages that are not enough to sustain a teenager? Not to mention the hiring of undocumented aliens by their contractors? Did I bring up their lack of healthcare benefits that stresses government budgets everywhere they are? You do not know what you are talking about. You are just looking for a reason to attack democrats and unions. Are you hiring people out of Pullman or Chatham? Is your business hiring anyone out of Pullman or Chatham? Are you willing to lower your wages so that people in Chatham and Pullman are able to have a job? Are you?