Hundreds of Illinois letter carriers and their allies rallied at
Federal Plaza Sunday in support of six-day mail delivery while also
calling on U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe to step down from his post.
Illinois labor representatives and U.S. Reps. Jan Schakowsky
(D-Evanston) and Bill Foster (D-Naperville) gathered in Chicago this morning on a national day of mobilization to call on House
Republicans to stop holding families and seniors hostage in the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations.
The Washington lawmakers,
along with members of the Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO and advocates for the poor and middle class, stressed that tax loopholes for
Wall Street and the richest Americans be closed instead of cutting
Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits.
“This is
about real people who will suffer real pain if the wrong decisions are
made,” said William McNary of Citizen Action Illinois.
Chicago Federation of Labor
President Jorge Ramirez joined a growing chorus of supporters on
Wednesday who are calling on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to reconsider a $99
million city contract that would cause more than 300 union custodial
workers at O’Hare Airport to lose their jobs by the end of this week.
Ramirez,
who has been considered an ally of Emanuel, was joined by fellow labor
leaders and advocates at a press conference held at City Hall to oppose
the a five-year deal with United Maintenance Inc., to provide
cleaning services to O’Hare beginning December 15.
“This contract
really jeopardizes the well-being of close to 350 men and women who go
to work every day keeping the world’s busiest airport clean,” Ramirez
said. “These workers have done nothing wrong, yet on Friday, less than
two weeks before Christmas they stand to lose their jobs.”
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today his picks for the five-member board of the Infrastructure Trust, a plan
to use private money to finance public projects that passed the City
Council in April. The council, which next meets June 27, must approve
each choice.
But the mayor has still not identified Trust
projects, except a plan where private investors would use $225 million to make
some city buildings more energy efficient. Emanuel spokesman Tom
Alexander said in an interview last week that, currently, there are no
additional projects on the table. Read more »
Illinois labor representatives and U.S. Reps. Jan Schakowsky
(D-Evanston) and Bill Foster (D-Naperville) gathered in Chicago this morning on a national day of mobilization to call on House
Republicans to stop holding families and seniors hostage in the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations.
Chicago Federation of Labor
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today his picks for the five-member board of the Infrastructure Trust, a 