Illinois
Workers say: Stop Bissell’s dirty work
November 13, 2009On Nov. 5, Cindy Marble and several of her co-workers were fired without any warning, after some of them had trained their replacements.
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S K Handtools workers end strike, save health care and jobs
November 12, 2009CHICAGO - After a 10-week strike to save their jobs, health care and union, seventy Teamster Local 743 members at S K Handtools voted 3 to 1 to accept the company offer and began returning to...
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Illinois graduate employees move towards strike
November 12, 2009The Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been engaged in a hard fought struggle to establish adequate compensation for its members.
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‘Fund the MAP, close the gap’
October 16, 2009More than 2,000 from Illinois marched on the state Capitol to demand funding for more than 137,000 students whose Monetary Assistance Program grants were only funded for half the school year.
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Whats it going to take to end corruption in Illinois?
February 10, 2009CHICAGO – Tainted by the dark cloud hovering over lawmakers here after the recent impeachment of former Governor Rod Blagojevich who allegedly tried to sell President Obama’s former U.S. Senate seat, many wonder if Illinois is...
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