Aldermen could give a whit that the multimillion-dollar West Side Wal-Mart store was built by an African-American female general contractor, with 57 percent of all the subcontracts going to women and minority-owned firms.Wal-Mart is the largest private sector employer of African-Americans in the United States. It appears the modern day union movement, in Chicago , could care less about African-Americans having job opportunities.
They sneeze at the other rich bennies Wal-Mart claims it has brought to Chicago: Its West Side store generated $10 million in new tax revenues in its first two years, and 14 new minority-owned Chicago vendors have gotten their products into Chicago area stores.
Our elected representatives couldn't care less. Here's someone who might finally get their attention: Voters. Serious voters.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Will Chicago's City Council heed unions or voters on allowing 2nd Wal-Mart in city?
Laura Washington has a truly great article in the Chicago Sun-Times. Will the unions continue stop needed job growth in Chicago? Washington marshals some impressive facts: