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Armando Robles, center, shown in 2013, was a maintenance worker at Republic Windows and Doors. He led the six-day occupation of the Goose Island factory in December 2008.

Republic Windows workers who staged 2008 sit-in to get final payment

June 12, 2018 at 2:53 a.m.

More than seven years after workers staged a sit-in at Republic Windows and Doors, becoming national symbols of protest amid the sweeping layoffs of the economic crisis, they are getting...

Glassdoor’s best-jobs list full of health, tech — and some surprises

June 12, 2018 at 7:32 a.m.

So you want to be a data scientist. Well, you don't really want to be a data scientist, but it sits at the top of so many "best jobs" rankings...

JP Morgan Chase announced a $75 million New Skills for Youth initiative that will give grants to states that develop demand-driven career education programs. "It is a crisis that only 60 percent of students in high-poverty urban school districts graduate from high school and that more than 5 million young people are out of work and school," said Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan, seen here during the Financial Inclusion Forum December 1, 2015 at the Treasury Department in Washington, DC.

JPMorgan Chase announces $75 million to fight youth unemployment

May 25, 2019 at 1:04 p.m.

JPMorgan Chase plans to spend $75 million to fight youth unemployment in part through grants to states that train young people for high-paying jobs that employers struggle to fill. The...

Stduents at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Chicago Booth to give 8 full scholarships to nonprofit, government professionals

June 11, 2018 at 5:46 a.m.

The University of Chicago's business school will give eight full tuition scholarships annually to professionals in the nonprofit and government fields, reflecting a growing investment among business schools in the...

Protesters are detained near Willis Tower in Chicago on Jan. 18, 2016.

Airport workers brave cold to call for higher wages

March 29, 2019 at 7:10 a.m.

Chicago's 24-below-zero wind chills did not halt a protest outside Willis Tower on Monday morning to advocate for a $15-an-hour minimum wage for airport workers. Organized by the Service Employees...

Kate Bensen is CEO of The Chicago Network, an invitation-only group of high-ranking Chicago women whose 450 members span the upper echelons of business, academia, science, the arts and nonprofits.

What one CEO wants women to do to reach the top

June 11, 2018 at 6:37 a.m.

Kate Bensen calls herself "a builder, a connector." Networking, for her, "is as natural as breathing." So having a standing wine date with a recruiter was in character for the...

Brian Washington, of Chicago, is seen on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, with the Powerball tickets he bought at the Citgo gas station at 83rd Street and King Drive in Chicago. Washington bought four dollars worth of tickets and said of the $1.5 billion jackpot, "Why not take a chance?"

Playing the lottery with co-workers? Set some rules.

June 24, 2019 at 2:17 p.m.

The chances of winning Wednesday's $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot may be infinitesimally small, but there's a fair chance chaos will erupt if the winners are co-workers in an office lottery...

A third of recruiters who used social media to find job candidates say they disqualified people based on content found in their social media posts.

Using social media to disqualify job candidates is risky

June 11, 2018 at 7:50 a.m.

Social media profiles have become founts of information for recruiters vetting job candidates, presenting a risk not only to applicants whose personal posts may hurt their chances but also to...

Coca-Cola workers, seen here picketing outside of the Niles plant on Dec. 3, 2015, voted to accept a three-year contract proposal on Jan. 10, 2016.

Coca-Cola workers overwhelmingly approve ‘strong’ contract

June 11, 2018 at 6:55 a.m.

Coca-Cola workers who went on strike for nearly a month at two Chicago-area production plants approved a new three-year contract Sunday that includes annual wage hikes and better health benefits,...

Chloe socializes with her co-workers after returning to work at Leo Burnett after the holidays and presented herself for the first time since announcing her transition.

How companies accommodate transgender employees — and their colleagues

March 29, 2019 at 3:16 p.m.

Josie Lynne Paul felt hopeful, and terrified, as she walked into an all-staff meeting to tell her co-workers what she'd known for years: that she was a transgender woman. And...

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