From CBS 2 Chicago:
Mayor Daley on Monday vetoed an ordinance that would have required Wal-Mart and other "big-box" retailers to pay employees a "living wage" of at least $13-an-hour in wages and benefits by 2010.
"I understand and share a desire to ensure that everyone who works in the City of Chicago earns a decent wage," Daley said in his first-ever veto message. "But I do not believe that this ordinance, well-intentioned as it may be, would achieve that end. Rather, I believe it would drive jobs and businesses from our city, penalizing neighborhoods that need additional economic activity the most."
By filing his long-awaited veto message 48 hours before Wednesday’s City Council meeting, Daley met the legal requirements for an override vote on that day.
Ald. Joe Moore (49th), chief sponsor of the big-box ordinance, said the mayor’s forces have agreed to wait until he returns from the funeral Wednesday for six children who died in a Rogers Park fire. But they are apparently determined to hold the override vote when Moore returns to City Hall.
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