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Chicago Progressives Voted To Freeze Minimum Wage Hikes for Restaurant Workers. Why Won't the Mayor Listen?

Mayor Johnson vetoed the City Council’s attempt to freeze tipped wage hikes, supporting a phased tip credit repeal despite 89% of restaurants raising prices, officials said.

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In recent years, the progressive left has pursued a systematic effort to apply the traditional minimum wage to restaurant workers. The latest battleground for this fight has become Chicago, where the progressive city council recently bowed to economic reality and voted to freeze another pending…

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Reason broke the news in United States on Saturday, March 28, 2026.
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