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Loretto Hospital union workers on strike

Loretto Hospital union workers strike this week over better pay and safety. A federal report shows a death occurred in the hospital’s waiting room earlier this year.

Kristen Schorsch

Loretto Hospital union workers on strike

Loretto Hospital union workers strike this week over better pay and safety. A federal report shows a death occurred in the hospital’s waiting room earlier this year.

Kristen Schorsch

From union elections to contract fights, hundreds of workers are organizing in Chicago

Museums, medical centers, coffee shops, night clubs and libraries are all seeing organizing efforts.

Loretto Hospital union workers strike this week over better pay and safety. A federal report shows a death occurred in the hospital’s waiting room earlier this year.

Kristen Schorsch

   

The Starbucks Reserve Roastery is the biggest union drive in the city, not to mention the largest Starbucks in the world, and if they win, they’ll join other unionized locations in fighting for a contract.

Reset gets an update on efforts to form unions and negotiate at Starbucks, at museums and hospitals and clinics across the city.

GUEST: Artemis Winter, mixologist at Starbucks Roastery

Kathy Hanshew, president of the Chicago and Midwest Regional Joint Board of Workers United and International Vice President of Workers United

Bob Bruno, director of the labor education program at the School for Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Anders Lindall, Director of Communications for AFSCME Council 31

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