The guild says it cut off an arm to save the company—and now it's time to show some love. But the company gently sends the message: This is not all about you.
It's not just the low wages or the near-scientific union busting. It's the preference for poverty, the business model built on turnover, the manipulative PR. Is this really the best way to bring jobs and food to the south and west sides?
The City Council sponsor of a plan to bring another Walmart to Chicago says he's not going to use a parliamentary maneuver to push it along, even though Mayor Daley has suggested otherwise.
There won't be a vote on another Chicago Walmart this week—a key alderman pulled it off the agenda for tomorrow's meeting of the City Council zoning committee.