Andy Driscoll said: "Progressive" legislators are selling out on the stadium issue right and left. It's finally emerging why that is: Labor."
"The Building Trades and Hotel & Restaurant Employees are coming down hard on these folks......" An irony about union support for a stadium, and support for Livable Wage, is that while the workers who work on construction of stadium will be getting union wage, the (temp) workers who will later work in it may have to settle for way less. I recall years ago walking home up Hennepin one Sunday, seeing about 30 people milling around the parking lot of a temp agency near the Library. I went up and asked what was up, and they told me they were waiting for a ball game to end, then the temp agency was going to van them over to the Dome to do the clean up work. They were going to get less than $10 a hour. Now that we have livable wage in Mpls, tell me, does it pertain to these people and to the people who are selling peanuts at the game, or does it only pertain to the people who built the stadium. Alan Shilepsky _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
