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Scott Waguespack & Leslie Hairston on Fox Chicago Sunday
In Studio – We’re also talking this Sunday about a new showdown at City Hall. Aldermen just approved a deal handing over Chicago’s parking meters to a private company. Now, they’re having second thoughts. Click play to watch 32nd ward alderman Scott Waguespack and 5th ward alderman Leslie Hairston tell us why this week is so important.
Watch VideoJeff McCourt, clawback.org
A specter is haunting Chicago City Hall-the specter of transparency for the city’s massive Tax Increment Financing (TIF) program
Last month two city aldermen—Manny Flores and Scott Waguespack—introduced a resolution to create an on-line TIF disclosure system that gives easy access to project budgets and actual spending ( including financing terms, dates, amounts, recipients and purpose) and that includes both weekly payroll data and periodic job creation reports for TIF districts.
Read ArticleMichael Tarm, The Associated Press
CHICAGO — The fortunes of more than 200 factory workers who came to symbolize the plight of laid-off labor last year when they staged a sit-in at a shuttered Chicago factory are looking up — even amid waves of layoffs elsewhere.
Read ArticleAngela Caputo, Progress Illinois
Last month we broke the news that the laid-off Republic Windows workers could soon be back on the factory floor if California-based Serious Materials succeeded in its bid to buy the shuttered Chicago plant.
Well, the deal has been sealed. Yesterday, a bankruptcy …
Read ArticleRobert Mitchum, Chicago Tribune
The sale of a Chicago windows factory where workers staged a six-day sit-in last December has been approved by a bankruptcy judge, clearing the way for the business to reopen in about a month and rehire those workers, union officials said.
Read ArticleDan Mihalopoulos, Robert Becker and Todd Lighty, Chicago Tribune
Market collapse is aggravated by system where aldermen benefit from campaign donations from developers
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Being that it’s Christmas Eve, I thought I needed to take a quick accounting for the year and send a quick e-mail to Santa Claus before he leaves the North Pole, to make sure he has these particular people on his famous naughty/nice lists.
Read ArticleJerry Mead-Lucero, Pilesenprole
Labor battles are most often measured in months. Some, like the Congress Hotel strike in Chicago or the recently successful effort to win union recognition at Smithfield Foods in North Carolina, have stretched on for years. Both have been extraordinary models of corporate campaigns and have successfully mobilized community allies, but this alone was not enough to bring a quick victory. When the struggle is over severance pay because of a factory closure, the matter often ends up resulting in a long drawn out legal battle. But it took the workers at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago a mere six days to defeat a recalcitrant employer, one of the nation’s biggest banking corporations, and to win all of their demands. The success of the workers at Republic, members of United Electrical Workers (UE) Local 1110, has raised the stakes for corporate America and raised the bar for labor unions across the country.
Read ArticleAndrew Schroedter, Crain’s
Developer Krzysztof Karbowski co-produces an award-winning television show, but his plans to redevelop a prominent Bucktown intersection hasn’t won any accolades with the locals.
Read ArticleStephanie Gray, Chicago Talks
Ald. Scott Waguespack (32nd) asked a Chicago City Council committee last week to stop parking companies from booting cars on private property in his West Side ward.
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