BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 1/14/10
Two days after Teamsters Joint Council 25 suspended Richard Berg and Gina Alvarez from office over trumped up charges, the International president, Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. has granted them a stay of effectiveness.
BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 1/11/10
Chicago Teamster bosses ousted reformers Richard Berg and Gina Alvarez from union office today in a power struggle between grassroots reformers and old guard Teamster officials over one of the largest Teamster local unions in Chicago and the country.
BY Stephanie Weiner | Chicago, Il | 11/04/09
“We won!” Text messages with those words went out the night of Nov. 3 from the SK Hand Tool strikers to family members and supporters. Reports went right to the fact that the SK Hand Tool workers will have health insurance.
BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 10/13/09
Stephanie Weiner of the Network to Fight for Economic Justice presented $1,500 to SK Hand Tool striker John McHale.
BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 9/22/09
Norma Trinidad and 20 of her co-workers stood in front of the Sears store on Dearborn Street in Chicago’s Loop, Sept. 18, handing fliers to people as they walked past.
BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 9/08/09
In the final days of August, members of Teamsters Local 743 accepted a new contract at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 9/08/09
Richard Lopez, once the overpaid $160,000-a-year president of Teamster Local 743, was sentenced to two years of prison on Aug. 27.
BY Stephanie Weiner | Chicago, IL | 9/05/09
As the strike at SK Hand Tool moves into its second week, it is clear it is picking up momentum.
BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 9/01/09
The strike by members of Teamster local 743 for health care at SK Hand Tool has attracted national attention.
BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 8/27/09
When the owner of SK Hand Tools in Chicago unilaterally cut off health care benefits for his employees, he provoked a strike. As a result, the picket line of striking workers on Tuesday, Aug. 25, was also a health care rally.
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