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Jeff Schuhrke

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Worker Speaks at Vigil

These Tortilla Workers Walked Out and Won a Day Off Work

By Jeff Schuhrke | December 3, 2021

Gathered outside Chicago’s flagship El Milagro taqueria, workers remembered those who died from Covid-19—and celebrated a victory that granted them Sundays off.

Unions
a segment of Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, an artwork that shows a man in a blue suit and grey fedora sitting next to a redheaded woman in a red dress being served at a bar by a man in a white hat and coat

An Exhibit of Worker Power: Art Institute of Chicago Workers Join the Museum Union Wave

By Jeff Schuhrke | September 16, 2021

Employees at the historic museum are organizing for pay fairness and transparency, part of a growing movement to unionize cultural institutions across the country.

Unemployed Workers
COVID-19

The Nightmare Facing the Poor and Working Class If There’s Not Another Stimulus

By Jeff Schuhrke | October 14, 2020

With time running out and Republicans balking at more Covid relief, U.S. workers are facing a future of financial misery.

Organizing

Healthcare Workers Are Leading the Largest Strike Ever at the University of Illinois-Chicago

By Jeff Schuhrke | September 17, 2020

‘In the face of a deadly pandemic, UIC’s largely Black and Latino hospital workforce is demanding workplace safety and livable wages.’

Community
Bernie Sanders

Labor Unions Were Crucial in Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire Victory

By Jeff Schuhrke | February 14, 2020

Another crucial player in Sanders’ New Hampshire coalition: organized labor. One of the state’s largest unions—the over 10,000-member State Employees’ Association of New Hampshire/SEIU Local 1984—endorsed the Vermont senator last month.

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