Fight for $15 rallies part-time college professors
Wanda Evans-Brewer, who holds a doctorate in education, earned so little last year as an adjunct professor at Concordia University in River Forest — $27,000 — that she qualified for...
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Students, adjunct professors rally for higher wages, snarl traffic
Labor organizers took their push for a minimum wage of $15 an hour to the University of Illinois at Chicago campus Wednesday, calling for higher wages for instructors and student...
Chicago canine influenza epidemic traced to Asian strain
Hunter, a fox red Labrador retriever, spent 10 days at a North Side boarding facility earlier this month while Alicia Fitzgerald was on vacation. When Fitzgerald returned to pick up...
Dog day care businesses hit by canine flu
Some Chicago dog day care businesses are temporarily closing their doors to prevent spread of a highly contagious influenza virus that has infected more than 1,000 dogs in the Chicago...
Nurses union accuses U. of C. of violating labor law
National Nurses United alleges University of Chicago Medicine is bargaining in bad faith, and has had hospital security follow nurses who are part of the negotiating team and restrict them...
McDonald’s raising its minimum wage, but some say it’s not enough
McDonald's plans to raise starting wages by $1 above the local minimum at select restaurants, just one of the changes on tap as the world's largest fast-food chain tries to...
Fast-food labor expands scope of Fight for $15
The group huddled in front of a McDonald's in downtown Chicago, preparing to tell the 100 people who had gathered there how the Fight for $15 had taken on a...
McDonald’s seeks names of workers who spoke with union
McDonald's, facing accusations of various labor law violations, on Monday requested the names of current and former employees who spoke with the Service Employees International Union or its allies as...
EEOC: Evidence points to gender discrimination at Ford Chicago plant
An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation has found "reasonable cause to believe" that four women who filed a civil lawsuit against Ford Motor in November were discriminated against and subjected...
Conversations stall over Starbucks’ ‘Race Together’ campaign
A day after Starbucks stopped asking baristas to write "Race Together" or place a sticker with those words on its cups, how had the conversations gone before the policy change?...