Just days after striking warehouse workers staged a large blockade
outside a major Walmart supply warehouse in the suburbs, a group of
like-minded labor advocates marched in front of a downtown Chicago
Walmart store.
The group, lead by Chicago Jobs With Justice, contained some of the same workers who attended Monday’s rally, like Dakari Whitfield.
Whitfield told Progress Illinois
that many employees in the suburban Elmwood warehouse work in harsh
conditions indoors without good ventilation, rarely get paid on time,
and are treated badly when they complain to managers.
“It’s
an unfair labor practices strike. We’re asking for a set schedule,
benefits, and maybe transportation,” Whitfield said. “When we presented
this position, people got fired and suspended.”
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Affordable-housing advocates are calling on local and state
governments in the country’s 25 largest urban areas to address the rapid
rate at which housing and transportation costs have risen over the past
decade.
Walwart workers participated in a simultaneous walkout and strike Wednesday at about 35 stores in the Chicago area.
Employees at a giant Walmart supply warehouse in rural Will County
returned to work Saturday after staging a 21-day strike in response to
alleged employer retaliation by a Walmart subcontractor.
Union members’ votes in the general election may make or
break whether Democrats take back control of the House of
Representatives, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-9) said at a labor rally
in Lincolnshire Saturday morning.
The following was written by Anders Lindall, spokesman for AFSCME Council 31, in response to the 
The following op-ed is by Brooke Anderson, Press Secretary to Governor Pat Quinn.