Blue City Mayor Connects Tipped Restaurant Wages To Slavery

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Connects Tipped Restaurant Wages To Slavery

A Vestige Of Slavery

Chicago mayor links restaurant industry to ‘slavery’ as tipped wage fight intensifies · American Wire News

Chicago’s fight over tipped wages for workers saw the city’s Democratic mayor challenge the city council and liken the restaurant industry to “slavery.” Mayor Brandon Johnson called on Chicago residents to “challenge the city council not to do stuff like take wages away from black and brown people,” as he spoke to reporters after the Chicago City Council failed to override his veto of a policy that would phase out the subminimum wage for tipped …

Blue City Mayor Connects Tipped Restaurant Wages To Slavery

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson linked the restaurant industry to slavery Wednesday after the City Council failed to override his tipped wage veto.

Chicago mayor links restaurant industry to ‘slavery’ as tipped wage fight intensifies – FOX News

"You just watched the entire city council, in transparency, try to take wages away from the very people who are part of an industry that has its ties to slavery is hiding from that," Mayor Brandon Johnson said in response to a question from a person who claimed that Johnson's Reparations Task Force was not in compliance with Illinois state law, which mandates that all public bodies hold public meetings. "I am boldly declaring that we need repara…