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Posts tagged SEIU Healthcare Illinois
Striking nursing-home workers claim victory
Union cheers ‘significant gains in base wages, pandemic pay, sick days, and PPE’
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Ted CoxInfinity Nursing Homes, Infinity Nursing Home Strike, Infinity Health Care, Infinity Healthcare Management, SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Greg Kelley, Jesse Jackson, Michael Pfleger, J.B. Pritzker, Rosalind Reggans, Coronavirus, COVID-19
Infinity residents, families call for end to strike
‘Pay the people,’ says one resident, as another seeks return to ‘some sense of normalcy’
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Ted CoxInfinity Health Care, Infinity Nursing Home Strike, SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Doris Moore, David Puschmann, Ambassador Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, George Willis, Niles Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Jennifer Neisler, Lakeview Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, Heather Tvrz, Parker Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Shaba Andrich
Revs. Jackson, Pfleger back Infinity COVID strike
SEIU chief negotiator says union has granted concessions on pay, with more talks set for Thursday
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Ted CoxCoronavirus, COVID-19, Jesse Jackson, Michael Pfleger, SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Tavis Grant, Infinity Nursing Homes, Infinity Nursing Home Strike, Infinity Health Care, Carl White Jr., Victory Christian International Ministries, Lakeview Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, Shaba Andrich, Kelli Beard, Holy Covenant United Methodist Church, CARES Act, Marilyn Pagan-Banks, San Mucas United Church of Christ, J.B. Pritzker, Robert Jones, Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Greg Kelley
Nursing-home workers strike, no talks set
Legislators feel betrayed that COVID relief, negotiated rate increase weren’t passed on to staff
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Ted CoxInfinity Nursing Homes, Infinity Nursing Home Strike, SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Erica Bland-Durosinmi, Kelly Cassidy, Lakesia Collins, Ram Villivalam, Shaba Andrich, Jacquevella Abulebdeh, Illinois Nursing Homes
'We won't stop until every vote is counted'
1,000 rally in Chicago to demand votes be counted ‘from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and from Detroit to Atlanta’
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Unions protect 'sanctity of this election'
Labor groups plan day-after rally, threaten general strike to ‘protect and defend our democratic rights’
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Ted Cox2020 Presidential Election, Chicago Teachers Union, SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Donald Trump, Stacy Davis Gates, SEIU Local 73, Dian Palmer, Joe Richert, Roberto Clack, Warehouse Worker Organizing Committee, AFGE Local 704, United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers of America, Cook County College Teachers Union, Fight for $15, Fight for $15 and a Union
Child-care workers blast Griffin for 'stalled' funds
SEIU Healthcare Ill. charges billionaire gave $40M to congressional Republicans and to defeat Fair Tax Amendment
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Ted CoxKenneth Griffin, SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Joslyn Ewing-Brown, Citadel Investments, Maggie Laslo, Bruce Rauner, Child Care Assistance Program, Child Care Is Essential Act, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Janette Wilson, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Tahiti Hamer, YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
Daily Debunk: Table scraps from billionaires
We don’t need the occasional bike path; we need billionaires like Ken Griffin simply to pay their fair share
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Ted CoxFair Tax Amendment, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Fair Tax, Kenneth Griffin, Citadel Investments, Rahm Emanuel, Lori Lightfoot, Illinois State Board of Elections, Coalition to Stop the Proposed Tax Hike Amendment, Daniel Biss, SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Corporate Subsidies, Corporate Welfare, Martin Luther King, AIG, Great Recession
Labor leads off long weekend, campaign season with pitch for fair tax
125 Illinois unions with 1M members back graduated income tax
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Steve Hughart, IBEW, Dan Montgomery, Illinois Federation of Teachers, Bill Hamilton, UAW, United Auto Workers, Greg Kelley, SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Tim Drea, Illinois AFL-CIO, Bob Reiter, Chicago Federation of Labor, Nancy Alverio, National Nurses United, Michael Madigan, Richard Uihlein
Hospital workers call for hazard pay, more COVID testing
‘Hospitals that were once safe havens are becoming a death trap’
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Ted CoxSEIU Healthcare Illinois, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Testing, Illinois Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Testing, Anne Igoe, Greg Kelly, Kim Smith, Wellington Thomas, Candice Martinez, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Medicine, Loretto Hospital
Hospital workers demand paid sick leave for coronavirus
‘Frontline’ staffers also call for clear protocols in dealing with COVID-19
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Threatened ICE raids breed fear, sap economy
Chicago aldermen join to protect communities, decry ‘political calculation by a failed racist president’
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Trump Immigration, ICE Raids, ICE, Trump ICE Raids, Trump Racist, Michael Rodriguez, Rossana Rodriguez, Andres Vazquez, Matt Martin, Alex Han, SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Byron Sigcho-Lopez, ICIRR
Pritzker grants union home workers overdue raise, back pay, rips Rauner
New guv charges predecessor with ignoring raises approved by legislators for the Home Services Program and CCAP
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U.S. Rep. Garcia leads protest against Trump's 'phony emergency'
Hundreds rally in subfreezing temps in Chicago’s Federal Plaza to denounce Trump ‘charade’
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Ed Yohnka, ACLU of Illinois, ACLU, Indivisible Chicago, U.S. Immigration, U.S. Border Wall, Trump Emergency, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, SEIU Local 1, SEIU Healthcare Illinois
Child-care union rips Rauner
Guv signs CCAP bill, but SEIU Healthcare Illinois says 'the damage has been done'
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Child-care chaos
Government waffling on state CCAP program prompts parents to pull out
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Ted CoxBruce Rauner, Ruth Kimble, Channing's Childcare, CCAP, Obamacare, Julie Morrison, SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Maricarmen Macias, Working Families, Child Care