Monday, June 13, 2011

Unions Cause Another Trade Show to Leave Chicago

Crain's Chicago Business reports:
The Car Care World Expo has decided against holding its 2013 trade show at McCormick Place due to higher labor costs and instead will go to Las Vegas.

Eric Wulf, chief executive officer of the Chicago-based International Carwash Assn., said that the uncertainty surrounding wide-sweeping reforms enacted last year by state legislators and currently being challenged by several unions forced the organization to withdraw its letter of intent to hold a future show in its hometown.

"Chicago simply is not a possibility given its work rules," Mr. Wulf said.

Unions mean unemployment.