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Can grad students unionize? Academia awaits major labor board ruling

August 21, 2019 at 7:42 p.m.

During the eight years that Matilda Stubbs has been pursuing a doctorate at Northwestern University, graduate students who work as teaching and research assistants have been trying to form a...

Doorman Patrick O'Malley, 51, at the East Lake Shore Drive building where he has worked for 19 years Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016.

Chicago doormen ratify tentative contract with sizable pay bumps

June 10, 2018 at 9:06 a.m.

The friendly faces who man the doors at many Chicago apartment buildings were celebrating this week after ratifying a tentative new contract that would give them big pay bumps and...

Tim Murphy, vice president of global supplier quality works at Ferrara Candy on Aug. 12, 2016, in Oak Brook. Ferrara is using an employee engagement app called Bonfyre to help build employee relationships and create a sense of community.

The latest trend in keeping employees happy? Tech tools

June 11, 2018 at 9:07 p.m.

Organizations often boast that their employees are their best asset, but keeping that asset happy — and productive, and around — has been an enduring, costly struggle. As the improving...

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner greets visitors to the fair while walking in the Twilight Parade at the Illinois State Fair on Aug. 11, 2016, in Springfield. On Aug. 12, Rauner signed into law the Illinois Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.

Rauner signs law extending labor protections to domestic workers

June 10, 2018 at 9:38 a.m.

Illinois nannies, housekeepers and other domestic workers will be entitled to the state minimum wage and basic human rights protections come Jan. 1 under a bill signed into law Friday...

Carnival workers say they got taken for a ride, file suit alleging wage theft

June 10, 2018 at 8:56 a.m.

Shortly after taking a job as a ride operator with a traveling carnival company, John Thompson noticed his paycheck looked thin as cotton candy. Thompson, a retired security guard from...

Ruperto Casares, 13, washes his boots and those of other migrant workers as they return to Nightingale Camp, inside the old hospital building on the former Chanute Air Force Base, in Rantoul, Ill., on July 20, 2016, after a 12-hour shift of detasseling cornfields.

For migrant workers on Illinois farms, the job is hot, risky

June 10, 2018 at 8:02 a.m.

On a scorcher of a mid-July afternoon, Laura Pascual lolled on a picnic table bench and felt grateful she wasn't in Texas. "It's cooler up here than over there," the...

A worker pushes shopping carts in front of a Wal-Mart store on May 9, 2013, in La Habra, Calif.

Wal-Mart launches scheduling system to improve predictability

June 10, 2018 at 9:00 a.m.

Wal-Mart has rolled out a new scheduling system that aims to give employees more control and predictability in their hours, but advocates who have been calling for such changes as...

SEIU Local 73 members picked outside Oak Park's village hall in 2012. The local's top leaders were removed by the Service Employees International Union due to infighting.

Infighting at SEIU leads to ‘collapse of leadership,’ removal of top officers

June 10, 2018 at 9:18 a.m.

The Service Employees International Union announced Wednesday that it had removed the top leaders of a large Chicago local and imposed an emergency trusteeship because of a "crisis of governance...

ADP to pay $1.4 million to settle Illinois racial discrimination charges

June 10, 2018 at 10:44 a.m.

Payroll processor ADP has agreed to pay nearly $1.4 million to resolve charges alleging it discriminated against black and Hispanic job candidates and employees in Illinois. ADP, which is headquartered...

Illinois ended June with 2,200 fewer jobs than it had the month before, a contrast to the nation's robust employment gains last month.

Illinois reports job losses in June; unemployment rate drops as labor force shrinks

June 11, 2018 at 10:13 p.m.

Illinois ended June with 2,200 fewer jobs than it had the month before, a contrast to the nation's robust employment gains last month. The state's unemployment rate dropped slightly in...

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