Another Trade Show Dumps Chicago Over Union Ripoffs
Posted on November 13, 2009
-By Warner Todd Huston
Another trade show is leaving Chicago this time for Atlanta, Georgia. The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting which has been held in Chicago’s McCormick Convention Center for quite some time is leaving the city due to the high costs that unions force upon its exhibitors.
In October we posted that the Plastics Industry Trade Association is also contemplating fleeing Chicago for southern hospitality for the same reason.
The HIMSS reports that 2009 attendance in Chicago’s McCormick Center was down by 5 percent compared to 2008. Attendance also dropped from 29,100 in 2008 to 27,500 this year. Additionally, HIMSS reports that they lost exhibitors over 2008, as well.
This is one more example of how Chicago gouges visitors and businesses alike with its highest taxes in the country and its horrid business climate. Chicago stands to lose some $52 million in business from the loss to Atlanta of the HIMSS convention.
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This does not surprise me in the least. The unions are a deadly disease to our society and pose threats of mob rule wherever they go.
All those companies that are leaving union “territories” for freedom in the employment market will succeed, where those bound to union chains will continue to fail. The US economy has sustained such a blow already that there is no possibility union companies can compete in the future.
Of all the ridiculous TARP, automaker/union cash dumping, economic stimulus, bailouts, etc., nothing strikes me as egregious as the financial sponsorship of the proposed bankrolling of a massive invasion of illegal aliens through the granting of blanket amnesty without regard to the blatant violations of our laws. LEGAL and regulated immigration should be promoted, but I absolutely oppose rewarding lawbreaking behavior by showing preference to their criminal status.