Tell Hyatt: Don’t Cut off Workers’ Healthcare!
Hyatt hotel workers in Chicago have stood strong through two years of contract negotiations, including a week-long strike in September and a spirited public boycott campaign. Unlike other unionized hotel chains, Hyatt has refused to budge on the key issues of contracting out union jobs and the increasingly brutal working conditions of hotel housekeepers. (This [...]
Work Comp Insurance Premiums to Increase???? WTF Springfield?
Next Wednesday (11.30.11) representatives of the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) will appear at the James Thompson Center in downtown Chicago, in Room 9-040 and ask the , with straight faces, for a 3.5% increase in workers compensation premiums. After all the hubbub surrounding the workers’ compensation deform that came out of Springfield this [...]
The Dystopian American Future of Labor..the Gospel According to Newt
How can we lift children out of poverty? Abolish child labor laws, says Newt Gingrich. That’s what this week’s Republican presidential front-runner told the not-so-poor kids at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government last week. Why not lay off the unionized public-school janitors, and hire school kids to do their work? The ideal age to start [...]
Unanimous IL Appellate Court Panel Affirms EEA’s victory for Steelworker client, with implications for employees throughout Illinois
EEA prevailed for our client at the IL Appellate Court where the Court affirmed EEA’s argument that mandatory overtime and mandatory other wages for meeting production quotas should be included in our client’s average weekly wage. Arcelor Mittal Steel argued that mandatory overtime and production bonuses should not be included in their employee’s average weekly [...]
Share a message of support with the Occupy Wall Street Movement
The AFL-CIO is bringing your messages of support to the Occupy Wall Street protesters. You can share your support here. While the police raids are ongoing, this movement has brought about a new national discussion on income inequality…one that desperately needs to take place. All messages of support are welcome, but even better would be [...]
Chicago labor and Occupy Chicago join hands Thursday
Across the country labor unions – the original voice of the 99% – are joining hands with the activists of Occupy Wall Street to challenge corporate greed. This alliance is only growing stronger despite today’s pre-dawn raid by the NYPD on the Wall Street encampment. This Thursday the labor coalition StandUp Chicago! will hold a [...]
Ohio Rejects Governor’s Assault on Bargaining Rights
Ohio voters soundly rejected Gov. John Kasich’s bill that would have limited the collective bargaining rights of 350,000 public workers. When the bill was passed earlier this year, Gov. Kasich and the GOP held this out as one of their major achievements in 2011. While the media has continued to portray this battle as Democrats [...]
Local Grievance leads to a National Picket against US Foods
Teamsters in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Missouri, Indiana, Washington, and Illinois are honoring a picket line against US Foods in support of Mike Vagansky. Mr. Vangansky is member of Teamsters Local 722 who works at the US Foods in Streator, IL. When US Foods disciplined him for being absent while he was in [...]
Injured Worker Benefit Funds pays 100% of claims this year!
In Illinois if you are injured at work and your employer doesn’t have insurance then you have to name in the State Guarantee Fund (“SGF”) in order to recover monies from the Injured Worker Benefit Fund (“IWBF). This year, all injured workers who named the SGF on their Application for Adjustment of Claim, tried their [...]