Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union and executive vice president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers, was guest speaker at the 26th annual Mother Jones dinner sponsored by the Mother Jones Foundation.
Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union and executive vice president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers, was guest speaker at the 26th annual Mother Jones dinner sponsored by the Mother Jones Foundation.
Update | 4:18 p.m. Quinn's campaign has released a statement on today's AFL-CIO vote:
As a former member of the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers, Governor Quinn is honored by the support he has received from organized labor. To date, Governor Quinn’s campaign has received endorsements the Service Employees International Union, the United Auto Workers, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Joint Council 25 and several other major unions. Together, the labor groups that have endorsed Governor Quinn represent more than 450,000 hard-working men and women.
Union leaders have praised Governor Pat Quinn’s vision of economic development and his effective leadership in passing Jobs and Growth for Illinois, the state’s first comprehensive public works program in more than a decade. Over the next six years, Illinois Jobs Now! will create and retain more than 439,000 jobs, helping to revive Illinois’ economy. Read more...
The battle began in Chicago, continued in Springfield and wound up in Washington. Now, it has come to a close.
About a year after they began a unionizing effort, teachers at the Chicago International Charter School finally have a contract with administrators. Read more...
