When the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) first announced its Meeting the Moment action plan last year, workforce and service delivery issues were at the forefront. Officials pointed to the “Great Resignation” as creating an unusually competitive job market, leading to high attrition rates among bus and rail operators. Mass resignations during the pandemic, along with […]
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Purchasing power
Hadas Thier explains how the Chicago school of economics dominates the government’s response to inflation.
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Temp workers have rights
City Bureau answers questions from workers who rely on staffing agencies.
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A team effort
Voters will decide whether to enshrine workers’ rights in the state constitution on November 8.
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Legal slavery
People in prison perform essential work, but the 13th Amendment prevents them from being treated with dignity.
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Illinois ride-share drivers demand better pay, safer conditions
A growing coalition of drivers is organizing nationwide.
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“Free the Reader!”
Staffers picketed Reader co-owner Leonard C. Goodman’s Lakeview home in support of the city’s oldest free alt-weekly.
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Brewing solidarity
Baristas in Chicago are joining a union drive that’s sweeping Starbucks nationwide.
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A farewell to the A.V. Club
The Chicago-based pop culture site moves to Los Angeles, leaving many worried about its fate.
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CPS nurses are exhausted
Nurses say conditions remain dire more than a month after a standoff with the mayor.
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Building 63rd House
On August 5, 1966, near Marquette Park, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was attacked while leading a protest to demand housing desegregation. Several blocks away from this spot stands 3055 W. 63rd, a formerly abandoned post office that turned 100 years old in 2020. This is the location where Blue Tin Production (a […]
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‘We’re not always treated like people’
Before the pandemic shuttered strip clubs, dancers were fighting exploitation and moving their work online.
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From the Bubbly Creek festival to sculptures made from straws
A roundup of art events happening this weekend
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians and Columbia College part-time faculty reach agreements with management
“We had no real choice,” says an orchestra member.