It shouldn’t have taken a PhD in economics to notice this – Wirepoints Quickpoint
May 17, 2024
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What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
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Ald. Jeanette Taylor voted in favor of the agreement — paving the way for her colleagues to do the same — though you’d never know it from how she admonished the railroad. “Norfolk Southern, who got rich off of the backs of slaves,” resisted “giving this community the little things that they’re asking for,” Taylor said, referring to her demand for an ironclad agreement of jobs and contracts for Englewood residents.
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Taylor traded her soul for a few jobs.
Finally. The alderman has received the needed and appropriate cash “contributions”.
Neither Norfolk Southern, nor its corporate predecessors (Southern Railway and Norfolk and Western Railway) existed during slavery. Another moment of ignorance for the City Council.
But the easement giving those metal rails the right of way though Chicago existed pre-civil war, and maybe one of those companies that used those metal rails in those right of ways easements might have employed slave labor, somewhere on the continent (wasn’t the confederacy a different country entirely at one point?). This extremely tenuous connection is good enough, I suppose.
“Ironclad agreement of jobs and contracts for Englewood residents.”
It would interesting to see Norfolk Southern’s records on how they comply with that provision. How many residents apply for jobs? How many keep working at the job longer than 30 days?
Compliance will most likely come through awarding contracts (wink, wink) rather than actual jobs.