Is this extortion? Or like Mafioso type management, where either you stay and pay or you leave and pay. Either way, this removes any liberal or democratic leanings and the city becomes a dictatorship. I would say to businesses still there: Leave now before the SF Nazi Police come after you.
Well, you guys decided to embrace crime and criminals to the point that they know there’s little or no penalties for their crimes, so what did you expect? So, enjoy the shithole you’ve created. At least you’re not all ‘judgmental’ and stuff.
Just say “we’re open, we’re just completely out of stock.” And keep a single employee there for six months to satisfy the stupid city council.
Everyone of those stores should close tomorrow in order to beat this communist crap.
How stupid does one have to be to think this will work?
The first amendment right of the people to peaceably assemble (aka the right of free association) allows people to change jobs at will. The pursuit of happiness expects people to improve themselves by gaining experience and advancing in capabilities and better jobs with better pay.
Only centrally-planned economies run by communist governments mandate which jobs certain people will be allowed to have. San Francisco cannot force people to continue to show up for work in a job they no longer want nor feel safe doing.
If they must do so, they can invoke the 13th amendment:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Staff the grocery stores with people convicted of crimes if they want to force businesses to remain open. The criminals can be paid prison wages, which should remove a large operating cost from the businesses.
-PJ
All of these lawsuits are doomed to fail.
Who’s the genius who decided to put a Whole Foods there in the first place?
It’s the politicians job to see to the community that elected them. They are throwing their responsibility onto business men who can no longer tolerate losses caused by the policies of these idiots.
Sounds like they are trying to legislate people with no standing to have standing to bring a lawsuit. So, the drug addled bum living in a tent a block away whose only shopping there consisted of shoplifting can sue them for not feeding him. Works for the vegan bum. Not so much for Whole Foods
The sooner they pass this law the sooner the city will wither away or collapse altogether. A bad thing, but not the worst thing.
Isn’t that called slavery?
This is a case where I would “kind of” pull what the Baltimore Colts did way back in the day. Pack up and close overnight. No warning. Then flee the state.