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AP file photo Hiring discrimination is pervasive within temporary employment agencies that serve warehouses and factories, Chicago-area workers’ rights organizations said Tuesday in releasing a study documenting practices that allegedly hurt Black or Latino applicants. The report said that in two-thirds of tests conducted in 2019, temp agencies hired or assisted applicants of one race and declined help for those of another race at roughly the same time. The tests used Black and Latino applicants paired for similar skills and backgrounds. The findings show the importance of suing employers t...

Their report found widespread favoritism to applicants based in race; Atty. Gen. Kwame Raoul promised tough enforcement of labor laws.

A new report contains the results of an experiment designed to demonstrate what workers and activists have long alleged: that racial discrimination is rampant in Chicago's temporary staffing industry, depriving Black candidates of jobs and putting Latino workers in positions to be exploited.

Photo: vodograj/shutterstock Sarah Reinhardt, Senior Analyst, Food Systems and Health | January 15, 2021, 11:57 am EDT This post is a part of a series on When President-elect Biden takes office next week, his fledgling team must begin to right a mountain of wrongs as the pandemic continues to rage. The previous administration’s nearly endless list of failures and sabotage has brought about many injustices, and among them is the dire situation of workers in the nation’s meat and poultry indus...

Photo credit: Getty Images Workers in food distribution, production, and logistics who are employed by temporary staffing agencies and other subcontractors should be prioritized for early access to the COVID-19 vaccine alongside other food system workers, argues a new report focused on the Chicago labor force. States are generally planning to allocate the vaccine to agricultural, grocery, and other food system workers in the first or early second phase of distribution. Workers and advocates with Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ), Chicago Workers’ Collaborative (CWC), and other g...