Lance Cohn

LATEST ARTICLES BY Lance Cohn

• Culture

  

  Chicago Symphony musicians perform free during their strike

  April 3, 2019 By Lance Cohn

  One of the most unusual and beautiful things that I have ever seen took place on March 23, 2019.

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• U.S.

  

  Chicago fights education cuts

  April 8, 2011 By Lance Cohn

  Republican budget cuts served as the backdrop for a recent labor and community rally and march sponsored by the Chicago Teachers Union.

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• Labor

  

  Big business drives Illinois anti-teacher bill

  January 6, 2011 By Lance Cohn And John Bachtell

  CHICAGO - Under the guise of "school reform," big corporate foundations, banking and speculative hedge fund investors are pulling out all stops to ram an anti-teacher measure through the Illinois state legislature.

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• Labor

  

  Republic Windows heroes continue the good fight

  March 9, 2010 By Lance Cohn And John Bachtell

  Armando Robles, president of UE Local 1110 sat down with the People's World to reflect how life has changed since the sit-in.

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• Labor

  

  Union goes on the offensive with charter schools

  December 5, 2009 By Lance Cohn

  Charter school teachers in Chicago vote for union representation.

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• Labor

  

  Protests shake up Chicago Fire Dept.

  April 9, 2004 By Curly Cohen And Lance Cohn

  CHICAGO – The city’s first African American fire commissioner in the 150-year history of the Chicago Fire Department (CFD) was appointed April 1 after weeks of mounting protest against a series of racist slurs on the...

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