Office of the City Clerk - Record #: SO2014-9491

• Record #: SO2014-9491
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 11/19/2014
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Aviation
• Final action: 1/21/2015
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Chapter 10-36 by adding new Section 10-36-210 to require airport concessionaires to enter into agreements with labor organizations prohibiting employees from engaging in picketing, work stoppage, boycott or other means of dispute resolution intended to interfere with concessionaire business operations at Chicago O'Hare and Midway International Airports
• Sponsors: Burnett, Jr., Walter, Solis, Daniel, Fioretti, Bob, Willie B. Cochran, Cullerton, Timothy M., Dowell, Pat, Arena, John, O'Connor, Mary, Maldonado, Roberto, Reboyras, Ariel
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 10 - Streets, Public Ways, Parks, Airports & Harbors - Ch. 36 Parks, Playgrounds & Airports

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
1/21/2015	101754	City Council	Passed as Substitute	Pass
1/20/2015		Committee on Aviation	Substituted in Committee	Pass
12/8/2014		Committee on Aviation	Held in Committee	Pass
11/19/2014	98980	City Council	Referred

SUBSTITUTE

ORDINANCE



WHEREAS, Chicago-O'Hare International Airport and Chicago Midway Airport ("the airports") provide vital services to the traveling public, to the air carriers operating at the airports, and to the economy of the City of Chicago; and
WHEREAS, Successful operation of the airports requires that airport patrons have access on an ongoing basis to a wide variety of foods and beverages, to newspapers and other reading materials, and to gift stores and duty-free stores; and
WHEREAS, Labor disputes involving concessionaires at the airports impede the efficient and orderly provision of these critical services to the traveling public; and
WHEREAS, The City of Chicago seeks to reduce the potential for labor-related disruptions at the airports by requiring airport concessionaires, as a condition of their concession contract with the City, to enter into agreements with labor organizations representing or seeking to represent their employees prohibiting the labor organization and its members from engaging in picketing, work stoppages, boycotts or other means of dispute resolution that interfere with a concessionaire's ability to conduct uninterrupted business operations at the airports; and
WHEREAS, The City of Chicago seeks, as a matter of policy, to ensure that its residents and members of the traveling public have access to reliable, high-quality concession and transportation services at its airports; now, therefore,


BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:

SECTION 1. The foregoing recitals are hereby incorporated into this ordinance as if fully set forth herein and are hereby declared to be the findings of the City Council of the City of Chicago.


SECTION 2. Chapter 10-36 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by inserting a new Section 10-36-210, as follows:

10-36-210 Labor-related requirements governing concession agreements at the airports.
(a) Definitions. As used in this section:

"Airport" means Chicago-O'Ha...