Labor

                
  • Uniform Justice reaches out to public

    Uniform Justice reaches out to public

    April 9, 2004

    CHICAGO – The giant Cintas Corp., which provides and launders industrial uniforms for some of the largest enterprises in the United States, is becoming to industrial laundries and uniform services what Wal-Mart is to retail trade....

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  • Protests shake up Chicago Fire Dept.

    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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  • Twin Cities bus drivers fight to save health care

    Twin Cities bus drivers fight to save health care

    April 9, 2004

    A flurry of strike support activities marked the fifth week of the strike of 2,200 Minneapolis and St. Paul bus drivers, mechanics, and clerical workers. The members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 walked off the...

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  • Teachers and their union fight for public education

    Teachers and their union fight for public education

    April 2, 2004

    An interview with Chicago Teachers Union President Deborah Lynch The most important thing we can do to reverse NCLB is defeat Bush in November.

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  • I didnt know I could be sold!

    I didnt know I could be sold!

    April 2, 2004

    Workers’ Correspondence I am one of 150 employees of the Home Care Network of Chicago’s Rush Hospital who were literally sold March 23 to Patient Care, a giant for-profit home-care company with 6,000 employees nationwide. Workers...

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