Chicago Chief Financial Officer Lois Scott testified at a City Council Finance Committee hearing yesterday that Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposed Infrastructure Trust “was conceived with the full-throated support of Chicago’s labor leadership.”
A massive Labor Day rally is scheduled for Monday morning at 11 a.m., starting in Grant Park. Scheduled speakers at the rally include Jorge Ramirez, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream.
On Monday, the Chicago Federation of Labor will host its annual
Labor Day rally and picnic in Chicago's Millennium Park. Gov. Pat Quinn
and State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias will be on hand for the
festivities, which kick off at 11 a.m. You can read all of the
information on this flyer (PDF). To get ready for it, watch this short clip of CFL President Jorge Ramirez on WTTW's Chicago Tonight, talking about the animating principles of Chicago's labor movement (the full interview is available here):
Today, Chicago labor leaders gave their blessing to a proposed Walmart store on the South Side after the mega-retailer agreed to pay second-year workers about $1 over Illinois' minimum wage. But considering that the multi-billion company is notoriously secretive with its wage data, the challenge is to make sure they actually follow through.
Chicago Chief Financial Officer Lois Scott testified at a City Council Finance Committee 
A massive Labor Day rally is scheduled for Monday morning at 11 a.m., starting in Grant Park. Scheduled speakers at the rally include Jorge Ramirez, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream.
