WALKOUT AT U.P.S. BY SUBCONTRACTOR’S JANITORIAL EMPLOYEES ENTERS FIFTH DAY About 60 employees of U.P.S. janitorial subcontractor Midway Building Services are on strike over pay and benefits at the U.P.S. Consolidated Hub facility in Hodgkins, I…
Chicagoland Area Laborers New Part Owners of Chicago Sun-Times Laborers represented by the LIUNA Chicago Laborers’ District Council are part of a group of investors who announced purchase of the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader, and the straig…
The Right Wing Distorts “Freedom” By Lee Saunders A week ago, as the nation prepared to celebrate Independence Day, I wrote a column in The Hill about the role labor unions play in promoting freedom. Working people, I argued, deserve the …
As of July 6 Illinois finally has a balanced bi-partisan budget after two years of devastating impasse thanks to legislators from both parties in the House and Senate. The balanced bi-partisan budget restores funding to IDOT projects so that Laborers…
The Illinois Department of Transportation has suspended projects as of July 1 due to the lack of a state budget. This shutdown impacts highway, rail, transit and aeronautics projects that involve contracts that have been let and awarded by the state,…
Wayne Hedley, construction Laborer, to Governor Rauner, “Please, don’t forget about me and my family.” June 30 is a crucial deadline for roughly 30,000 construction workers and their families in Illinois because if Governor Rauner d…
A protracted shutdown of planned road and bridge projects could shrink the Illinois economy by nearly $2 billion on net, eliminate 23,000 jobs, and cost taxpayers up to $270 million over the next year. A new study by the Illinois Economic Policy Inst…
¿Qué es una ley de derecho al trabajo? "Derecho al trabajo" es el nombre de una política diseñada para quitar los derechos de los trabajadores. Los defensores del derecho a las leyes de trabajo afirman que estas leyes prot…
What Are Right-to-Work Laws? “Right to work” is the name for a policy designed to take away rights from working people. Backers of right to work laws claim that these laws protect workers against being forced to join a union. The reality …
One of Gov. Rauner's first executive actions in 2015 was to overturn many of Gov. Quinn's executive orders protecting workers and wage standards including one that encouraged state agencies to use PLAs (project labor agreements). Gov. Rauner has also…
