Lines are drawn in living wage wars in Chicagoland
This from the New York Times on the Chicago City Council’s decision to require big box retailers to pay a higher wage.
The story is de facto about Wal-Mart’s operations in the nation’s third-largest city. I was surprised to learn the mega-chain only recently opened its first box in the city. I was not surprised to learn that they currently operate 40 stores within 50 miles of Chicago.
Living wage is a really sensitive issue. It cuts to the heart of the larger globablization debate, as it pits real live human beings living and working on one side, and super-human megacorporations on the other. It’ll take a long time to play out, but kudos to the Chicago City Council for reminding companies like Wal-Mart that their customers aren’t the only ones who deserve a fair shake as well as a nice slice of the pie.
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