{"id":416,"date":"2014-06-24T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/06\/parking-a-link-update-on-chicago-politics.html"},"modified":"2014-06-24T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T09:41:00","slug":"parking-a-link-update-on-chicago-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/06\/parking-a-link-update-on-chicago-politics.html","title":{"rendered":"Parking a link: Update on Chicago Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
There was an \u201copposing sides\u201d pair of opinion pieces in Sunday\u2019s Tribune on a proposal to increase the minimum wage to $15 (the con side said, \u201cit\u2019ll cost jobs,\u201d and the pro side said, \u201cI don\u2019t care about facts because social justice\u201d) which led me to look for details on the proposal, which brought me to a \u201cChicago City Council Roundup<\/a>\u201d from a site called progressillinois.com (the details were lacking on the more straight news sites). \u00a0Lots of great stuff going on at city hall, apparently.<\/div>\n

First, the city council debated a new ride-sharing ordinance. \u00a0I haven\u2019t been following this issue too closely \u2014 I keep meaning to get up to speed \u2014 but here\u2019s the key quote:<\/p>\n

On the council floor, [Ald. Anthony] Beale said the ordinance is not tough enough on ride-sharing firms and \u201cwill hurt the hardworking men and women that are driving cabs every single day.\u201d Taxi medallions in Chicago, which cost about $360,000, \u201cwill be useless if this ordinance passes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given that the \u201chardworking\u201d cabdrivers are not the ones who own the medallions, but that their hard work is, in large measure, due to the need to pay the medallion-owners for the right to drive a cab, I have very little sympathy for a medallion-owner whose investment loses some, or even a lot, or all, of its worth, given that their value is artificial and due to city-legislated scarcity anyway.<\/p>\n

Then, the minimum wage increase: \u00a0this is a proposal by the progressive caucus and has 12 \u2013 15 supporters out of a total of 50 aldermen. \u00a0It would dictate a near-immediate increase in the minimum wage with virtually no phase-in period:<\/p>\n

Under the proposed ordinance, large employers in Chicago making at least $50 million annually would have 90 days to raise their employees\u2019 wages to $12.50 an hour, including workers at their subsidiaries and franchise locations. Large employers would then have to raise workers\u2019 hourly wages to the $15 level within one year of the measure taking effect. \u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Businesses with less than $50 million in annual revenue would have a different minimum wage phase-in period. Small and mid-sized businesses would have to increase their base hourly wage to $12 within 15 months. After that, the smaller employers would have to increase their minimum wage by $1 each year until they hit the $15 level by 2018.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0This follows an announcement by Emmanuel of a task force to \u201cstudy\u201d the minimum wage, so I assume that, since the rule in Chicago is generally, what the mayor wants, the mayor gets, that the magical-thinking $15 proposal won\u2019t go anywhere but that Emmanuel will make sure the task force comes up with a recommendation that he likes, and that this recommendation will be enacted.<\/p>\n

There are also details on a gun store ordinance (in brief, through zoning restrictions, virtually the entire city is off limits), a \u201csweatshop-free\u201d procurement ordinance (because apparently all third-world sweatshops clearly identify themselves to their customers), and a SRO-preservation ordinance (in which SRO owners will be forbidden from converting their buildings to other uses).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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