By Samantha Bomkamp, Chicago Tribune
Hotel workers are protesting at Hyatt’s annual meeting on Monday as part of the long-running labor dispute between the chain and the union representing housekeeping staff and other workers.
By Max Rivlin-Nadler, Gawker.com
A strike that lasted ten years and became a fixture of Chicago’s “Magnificent Mile,” finally ended Wednesday when workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel offered to return to work with no conditions.
By James Warren, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Organized labor will break its silence and oppose President Obama’s nominee for Commerce Secretary, Chicago’s Penny Pritzker, the Daily News has learned.
By Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times
Penny Pritzker, President Barack Obama’s Commerce secretary nominee, has long been a target of organized labor — with the drive against her led by the Chicago Teachers Union and Unite Here Local 1, representing the city’s hotel workers.
By Sean Higgins, The Washington Examiner My colleague Mark Hemingway at the Weekly Standard notes
By Robert Combs, Bloomberg BNA The AFL-CIO closed the book on 2012 last month with
