Mayor Brandon Johnson signed a wide-ranging executive order Wednesday meant to prevent corporations that carry out corrupt or abusive practices, including inhumanely assisting in aggressive federal deportation campaigns, from doing business with the city.
Citing an “unprecedented level of corporate corruption” nationally, the three-pronged order: prohibits contracts or subcontracts with a company that has committed workplace discrimination, wage theft, or a defined “public integrity violation” in the past five years; requires a company to disclose its diversity demographics, as well as any contracts it has with any other body of government, such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); and creates a 12-member Ethical Procurement Standards Task Force.
“You think about workers’ rights, you think about voting rights, you think about the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. All of us are incredibly vulnerable right now. I’m working to do something about it,” Johnson told WBEZ in an interview Tuesday…