(Chicago Tribune) A program that encourages hotel guests to decline housekeeping to conserve water and electricity sounds like a noble idea.
But hotel housekeepers say the program is killing their jobs, their legs and their backs as those workers still employed say they have to work harder because the rooms tend to be dirtier.
(Post-Tribune) Ameristar employees took their fight to retain their current health care coverage to the street in front of the casino Friday, where they danced to music, held signs and urged motorists to honk in support of their cause.
Union food service employees at the Thompson Center food court were urging Gov. Pat Quinn to protect their jobs in the face of a looming management changeover.
Rivers Casino operators have reached a settlement with a Chicago-based hospitality workers union over claims the casino tried to prevent employees from unionizing.
Rivers Casino management must post a notice to employees promising not to threaten them if they seek to join a union, according to a settlement between the Des Plaines casino and a labor union that’s been trying to organize its workers.
Billionaire real estate investor Neil Bluhm and Unite Here Local 1 have settled a series of charges over the union’s drive to organize workers at Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, the state’s most lucrative gambling hall.
On Thursday afternoon, over 100 Rivers Casino workers, Chicago hospitality workers and community allies rallied outside of Rivers Casino. They are calling for better working conditions and an end to management-led intimidation at Rivers. Chicago billionaire Neil Bluhm is the chairman of the company that owns Rivers Casino.