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Advocates differ on language requiring strict pass-through of state funding to staff
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The walkout started Thursday. The two sides have negotiated for more than a year without a contract agreement.
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Strike began Monday at CSU; EIU and GSU faculty could strike this week
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John Penn, a labor legend who shaped working life for decades of McLean County residents, is finally taking some time off. He retired this week from LiUNA (Laborers International).
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Here’s the story of a strange strike in which everybody went to work, and everybody got paid, and everybody went to jail.
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Six years later, there’s increasing pressure to measure Rivian’s record by more than just its headcount. Some former and current workers tell WGLT the plant is a challenging and, at times, unsafe place to work.
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Just this month, employees at a battery plant in Ohio voted to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) union – an apparent first for an electric vehicle or battery cell plant not owned entirely by the Big Three legacy automakers. The UAW would very much like Rivian to be next.
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Amtrak began to cancel trains scheduled to stop in Bloomington-Normal on Thursday as the country prepared for a freight rail strike that’s already spilling over into passenger service even before it begins.
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As voters in Illinois prepare to decide on a state constitutional amendment that would guarantee workers the right to organize, a new study shows union membership in the state grew last year for the first time in four years.
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With the Rivian plant in Normal adding a second shift, the United Auto Workers has been quietly contacting workers about a possible union-organizing campaign.