Watch a short video history of Labor Day here. The Origins of Labor DayBY NEWS DESK PBS Newshour A Labor Day parade on Main Street in Buffalo, New York, circa 1900. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. Conceived by America’s labor unions …
How Today's Unions Help Working People: Giving workers the power to improve their jobs and unrig the economy, by Josh Bivens et al. EPI August 24, 2017 Americans have always joined together—whether in parent teacher associations or local commun…
Gov. Bruce Rauner has sided with big insurance companies and against Illinois employers, House Speaker Michael J. Madigan said, criticizing the governor’s veto of legislation offering Illinois businesses the ability to reduce workers’ com…
LIUNA Local 1001 members work one of the most dangerous jobs in the U.S. - collecting Chicago's garbage. In fact, garbage workers are far more likely to die on the job than police officers or professional firefighters. States Hope to Make One of the …
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…
