The Jane Addams Hull House Association, a sprawling, non-profit
social service agency, will close shop today after 122 years – a move
that Hull House staff contends was far too abrupt, especially
since it meant the immediate removal of their health care benefits.
Mark
Tisdale, a volunteer coordinator at Hull House, says that a group of
employees might file a complaint with the Illinois Department of Labor
on behalf of the about 320 Hull House staff. Tisdale says that the office of
Attorney General Lisa Madigan suggested filing the Labor Department
complaint. Read more »
Illinois faith leaders are headed to Springfield this morning to call
on legislators to raise the minimum wage. The religious leaders and
members of the Raise Illinois coalition boarded an Amtrak train today to
go to the state capitol to hold a press conference on the issue.
Restaurant workers are paid far less than other occupations, but low
wages actually mean higher costs for restaurants, a report published
last week by 
A federal mediator waded into the almost two-year contract
dispute between the City Colleges of Chicago and AFL-CIO Local 1708, which
represents city college clerical and technical workers, as the workers
staged a protest today outside City College headquarters. The dispute comes
amid an ambitious “reinvention” of the system: Rahm Emanuel 