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Employees at the Art Institute of Chicago have won the vote to form a union, achieving certification Tuesday from the National Labor Relations Board.
The workers have chosen to affiliate with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Results of a separate union vote by workers at the museum’s school are to be announced Wednesday.
Deidre Silas, an Illinois Department of Child and Family Services investigator, died after being stabbed at a home on West Elm Street in Thayer.
The workers will cast mailed-in ballots that will decide if they affiliate with Council 31 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
Hundreds of state workers who lost union representation during the administration of former Gov. Bruce Rauner could get it back under a bill approved by the Illinois Senate this week and now pending in the House. Decisions on whether public-sector workers should be classified as supervisory and thus not eligible for union protections should be based “on actual employee job duties and not solely on written job descriptions,” according to Senate Bill 525. Sponsored by state Sen. Omar Aquino, D-Chicago, the bill passed by a vote of 44 to 11 on Thursday, with all the “no”...