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Workers in the manufacturing, warehousing, food service, janitorial and restaurant industries gathered to protest workplace harassment, including intimidation, degradation and identity-based targeting.

Workers at the Art Institute of Chicago, and its school, SAIC, voted to ratify their first union contract deal.

The employees have affiliated with Council 31 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which has signed up members at other Chicago institutions.

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Adjunct professors and lecturers voted overwhelmingly to join AFSCME, adding to the union’s winning streak in recent elections.

A staffing agency and the bakery’s then-owner are set to pay more than $1 million to settle the case. Worker advocates say the suit points to widespread problems faced by temp workers, and the possible legislative solutions.

“This opens the door for undocumented workers to be able to fight for the right to be respected in the workplace.”

The nontenure-track faculty, like other staff members at the school and the museum, are organizing with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Art Institute of Chicago Following a union drive in September 2020 that garnered majority support, workers at the Art Institute of Chicago museum voted overwhelmingly to form the Art Institute of Chicago Workers United. They will be represented byAmerican Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 31. The School…