Well, that didn't work.

Daley wins another election in a landslide.

Better luck next time. By the way, when do contract negotiations start, again? Months after the current contract expires? Also from the same Scum-Times article:

Contracts with city unions expire June 30 and a showdown looms. Last time around, the police contract was handed down by an arbitrator, and it took 28 months to nail down an agreement with the building trades that ended up denying retirees back paychecks.

28 months. Don't the contracts last for 36? We seem to recall our previous contract expiring in 2004, and the new one getting ratified in October of 2006 - and not until after sworn personnel got theirs. We don't predict the next negotiations proceeding any more quickly. Now that the mayor has won a 6th term, his belief of invincibility has surely worsened. And you know what that means for his employees, especially since most of our unions decided not to endorse him for another term. We expect to feel more wrath.

Payback's a bitch.