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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.
Posted inArts & Culture
David Ranney on Living and Dying on the Factory Floor
The UIC prof and former factory worker has no nostalgia for the days of middle-class manufacturing jobs.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
CSO negotiations resume, free concerts continue
The entire orchestra will play together in Woodlawn.
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As the hotel strike winds down, a new strike pops up in the West Loop
This week Painters District Council #14 launched a picket at 1000 W. Washington, owned by Lieberman Management Company.
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Hotel workers’ strike now in its second week with no end in sight
United Here Local One and its hospitality workers are demanding year-round health care as part of their contract.
Posted inMusic
The protest songs that drove the Wobblies a century ago are still lighting fires
Labor firebrand Joe Hill wrote some of the most enduring anthems in the IWW’s Little Red Songbook—and today’s activists carry on his legacy.
Posted inBlogs
What Chicago could learn from Paris’s massive labor protests
What if Illinois workers responded to austerity measures the way French workers did this week?
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Uber encourages its Chicago drivers to capitalize on taxi strike
“Thousands of Chicagoans will be looking for a ride to work, so We Need YOU to help us move Chicago,” the company wrote in an email.
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Cabbies have an unlikely ally in their fight against Uber: Uber drivers
David Royko drove a cab and an Uber—and disliked both.
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CTU strike (susp)ends
Local news outlets are reporting that the CPS teachers’ strike is off
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It happened last night: CTU goes on strike
School’s out for . . . well, we’re not sure exactly
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UNO’s Juan Rangel does a damn good Chris Christie impression
The state’s biggest charter school operator calls the teachers union “totally irresponsible and reckless”
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Everything Is Ivan the Terrible!
Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible vs. Everything Is Terrible!
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Sergei Eisenstein, comedian
The humor in Sergei Eisenstein’s first feature, Strike (1925).