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Victor L. canada goose uk shop Hoskins, deputy mayor for planning and economic development, would not say whether he would recommend that Mayor Vincent C. Gray veto the canada goose uk outlet legislation, which would require some large retailers to provide minimum wages Canada Goose Coats On Sale and benefits of $12.50 an hour.
But he said its passage into law would have a “chilling impact” on retail growth in the city, driving away not only Wal Mart which buy canada goose jacket cheap has said it will abandon three of six planned stores should the bill become law but also other national retailers considered more desirable by residents and elected officials.
“What they’re doing is, they’re killing the golden goose,” Hoskins said cheap canada goose uk of city canada goose black friday sale lawmakers, citing figures cheap Canada Goose of 3,000 permanent jobs, 1,000 construction jobs and untold tax revenue lost over the next 18 months should the bill pass and Wal Mart follow through on its ultimatum. Although lawmakers may think they are targeting Wal Mart, he added, other retailers buy canada goose jacket are “concerned it may one day turn on them.”
Hoskins’s comments, made in an interview, add to mounting evidence that Gray (D) is likely to veto the measure, known as the Large Retailer Canada Goose online Accountability Canada Goose Outlet Act.
Its wage and benefit provisions represent a 50percent premium over the city’s minimum wage of $8.25. The requirement would be applicable to retailers with yearly corporate sales of at least $1billion operating out of spaces of 75,000 square feet Canada Goose Online or more, with an exception for companies with unionized workforces. Republican Party, the National Retail Federation and the American Antitrust Institute, all of which released letters canada goose or statements urging Gray to exercise his veto.
But backers of the living wage bill, including labor unions and advocates for low income residents, urged Gray to sign canada goose uk the measure, which would raise the annual compensation of an entry level worker from about $17,000 to $26,000.
The Rev. Graylan Hagler, pastor of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ and a leading living wage proponent, said Gray has canada goose uk black friday pledged to meet with his group, although no date has been set. Clergy, he said, are organizing to exert pressure on Gray, who is pondering whether to run for reelection.
“There is political hell the mayor’s going to face” should he veto the bill, Hagler added. Council have suggested that Wal Mart’s ultimatum was a bluff and that, canadian goose jacket if the retail giant did make good on its threats, other Canada Goose sale companies https://www.canadagoosejackets7v.com canada goose clearance sale would move in.
“That’s not true,” Hoskins said when presented with that argument. “No other folks are ready to come in. I’m the one talking canada goose clearance to these folks… The conversations are getting difficult, I have to say.”
At least one developer Gary D. Rappaport, who is handling the Skyland Town Center site in Ward7 has said his project will stall without Wal Mart as an anchor. Hoskins said the two other Wal Mart sites where construction has yet to begin are doomed otherwise, and Canada Goose Jackets he raised the possibility that Wal Mart may never open stores at three other sites where construction is underway. The company has said it is reviewing its “financial and legal options” for those locations.
Three other retailers, Hoskins said, have cited the living wage bill in abandoning interest in District locations.
He declined to name specific companies, but he said the bill could arrest development at the former Walter Reed Army Hospital site in Northwest Washington and expansion of the Costco anchored Shops at Dakota Crossing site on New York Avenue NE.
Wegmans, the New York based mega grocery, has been rumored for more than a year as a possible anchor for the Walter Reed site. Lowe’s, the home improvement big box store, has been in talks to locate at canada goose coats on sale Dakota canada goose factory sale Crossing.
Gray has expressed deep reservations about the bill but has not said whether he will veto it. His chief of staff, Christopher L. Murphy, said Friday that the mayor has scheduled several meetings next week with various canada goose coats groups on both sides uk canada goose outlet of the issue to discuss Canada Goose Parka the legislation’s impact.
