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Workers say: Stop Bissell’s dirty work

November 13, 2009

On Nov. 5, Cindy Marble and several of her co-workers were fired without any warning, after some of them had trained their replacements.

Unemployment crisis continues to grow

November 12, 2009 By John Wojcik

CHICAGO - "The stock market rebound is great news, I suppose, but it means nothing for us at home."

S K Handtools workers end strike, save health care and jobs

November 12, 2009 By John Bachtell

CHICAGO - After a 10-week strike to save their jobs, health care and union, seventy Teamster Local 743 members at S K Handtools voted 3 to 1 to accept the company offer and began returning to...

Illinois graduate employees move towards strike

November 12, 2009 By Damien Mathew

The Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been engaged in a hard fought struggle to establish adequate compensation for its members.

Foreign companies getting bulk of green stimulus

November 10, 2009 By Susan Webb

Of the $1.05 billion of stimulus funds handed out for clean energy grants since Sept. 1, 84 percent - $849 million - has gone to foreign wind companies.