Chicago Mayor Vows Veto on Tipped Worker Wage Freeze
March 19, 2026·about 1 hour ago·via CBS News
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson pledges to veto a bill freezing scheduled wage hikes for tipped workers, prioritizing union-backed minimum wage mandates over restaurant industry realities. Tipped servers and bartenders rely on customer gratuities, not government-decreed floors that kill jobs and jack up menu prices in an already struggling economy. Johnson's veto threat exposes Democrat hypocrisy - they preach worker rights but crush small businesses with overregulation and forced labor costs. Read more about this...