Teamsters confront Thorn Creek Basin officials over labor dispute

CHICAGO HEIGHTS | Officials with the Teamsters union local that represents 13 employees of the Thorn Creek Basin Sanitary District will meet Monday with Mayor David Gonzalez, who they perceive as a supporter of their ongoing labor dispute.

Teamsters Local 705 on strike

Members of Teamsters Local 705 picket Tuesday outside the Thorn Creek Basin Sanitary District offices in Chicago Heights.

Teamsters Local 705 on strike at sanitary district

CHICAGO HEIGHTS | Members of Teamsters Local 705 who work at the Thorn Creek Basin Sanitary District, 700 West End Ave., are on strike as of Monday afternoon.

Teamsters begin picket at Thorn Creek Basin facility

CHICAGO HEIGHTS | About a dozen Teamsters Local 705 members began pickets Monday at the Thorn Creek Basin Sanitary District facility in frustration with the current negotiations for a new contract.

ECHO pickets school boards over contract dispute

LANSING | Special education teachers are picketing outside local school board meetings after a stall in contract negotiations with the Illinois Education Association.

Chicago strike likely to affect other Ill. schools

Teachers picket Sept. 18 outside Morgan Park High School in Chicago as a strike by the Chicago Teachers Union continued into its second week. The seven-day strike kept 350,000 students out of class.

Chicago strike likely to affect other Ill. schools

Teachers picket Tuesday outside Morgan Park High School in Chicago as a strike by the Chicago Teachers Union continued into its second week. CTU members in the nation's third-largest city will vote Oct. 2 on their new contract.

Teachers unions to fight 'top-down' school reform

CHICAGO | Seeking to capitalize on the momentum of the Chicago teachers strike, unions and allied parent and community groups promised Friday to launch a nationwide fight against government-led school reform efforts that they say are only making public education worse.

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Chicago Teachers Union president is brash advocate

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, right, tells reporters Sunday at a news conference outside the union's headquarters that the city's 25,000 public school teachers would walk the picket line Monday after final-day talks with the Chicago Board of Education failed to reach an agree…

Chicago teachers union president is brash advocate

CHICAGO | She's brash and blunt, the tough-talking union leader who has taken on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a bitter contract dispute regarded as a referendum on the future of the nation's third-largest school district.

Roofers strike

A member of Roofers Local 26 gives a thumbs-up after a motorist honks his horn in support of the group striking against Gluth Brothers Roofing Co. Inc. while the company reroofs the Deep River Wood's Grist Mill in Hobart on Wednesday. The local, whose full name is United Union of Roofers, Wa…

Roofers strike

Workers with Gluth Brothers work at the Deep River grist mill while the company reroofs the building in Hobart, Wednesday, June 13, 2012.

Roofers strike

Members of Roofers Local 26 strike against Gluth Brothers while the company reroofs the Deep River Grist Mill in Hobart on June 13.

Much ado about dues

Members of United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers Local 26 strike against Gluth Brothers Roofing Co. while the company reroofs the Deep River Grist Mill in Hobart on June 13.

Much ado about dues

A member of United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers Local 26 strikes against Gluth Brothers Roofing Co. while the company reroofs the Deep River Grist Mill in Hobart on June 13.

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Broad Street closure hurts businesses, owners say

Work had stopped on the Broad Street construction project in downtown Griffith, shown here on June 15, due to the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 strike. Now that Local 150 and three contractor groups reached a tentative contract deal Tuesday, work should begin again sho…

Broad Street closure hurts businesses, owners say

Work had stopped on the Broad Street construction project in downtown Griffith, shown here on June 15, due to the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 strike.