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 | 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 | 9/01/09
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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