BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 3/04/10
There was a forceful protest of over 250 people at the University of Illinois-Chicago who came out to defend education and to fight for fair contracts, March 4.
BY Brad Sigal | Minneapolis, MN | 2/10/10
On Saturday, Feb. 6, about 40 people gathered at the Minneapolis Labor Center to train for civil disobedience in support of the janitors of SEIU Local 26.
BY Brad Sigal | Minneapolis, MN | 2/02/10
On Jan. 30, hundreds of janitors, mostly Latino and East African immigrants, held a spirited meeting at the Minneapolis Labor Center and voted nearly unanimously to authorize a strike.
BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 7/07/09
An unfair labor practices charge against the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) has been filed with the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board.
BY Joe Iosbaker | Chicago, IL | 5/27/09
The University of Illinois Board of Trustees had protesters inside and outside their meeting here, May 21.
BY Staff | Gary, IN | 5/17/09
Edgewater Systems for Balanced Living is a social service agency here whose services cover children with developmental disorders as well as adults with chronic mental illness.
BY Joe Iosbaker | UIC Medical Center | 5/08/09
Meetings of the workers from the Patient Access call center at UIC Medical Center look like the waiting room of an Orthopedics clinic.
BY Staff | UIC | 3/27/09
As reported by Fight Back News Service on March 20, workers in the Patient Access department at UIC were locked out of their workplace for wearing t-shirts that opposed a recent decision to nearly double their workloads.
BY Joe Iosbaker | UIC | 3/23/09
On March 20, starting at 7:00 a.m., 44 customer service representatives began to arrive at the Patient Access department at the UIC (University of Illinois - Chicago) Medical Center wearing matching purple t-shirts.
BY Joe Iosbaker | California | 1/28/09
The trade union bureaucrats in SEIU (Service Employees International Union) are moving to crush the California local that refused to sell out.
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