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,…
¿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…
