Events
Rally in Federal Plaza
219 S. Dearborn St.
On October 29, Congressman Dan Lipinski and Mayor Daley will meet to plan the 2016 Olympics while the Chicago regional transit and paratransit systems collapses in 2007. We will rally in response to this meeting to say that getting people to work safely, on time & affordably is more urgent than the Olympics.
Join Chicago Federation of Labor and allies in a rally against the recent anti-union decisions by the National Labor Relations Board.
Regional NLRB offices
Rookery Building
209 S. LaSalle St., Chicago
Read more about the decisions in our article NLRB Racing to Erode Workers' Rights.
Support workers at Smithfield Packing in Tar Heel, N.C.
Chicago Theatre, 175 S. State St.
Celebrity chef Paula Deen has ignored the workers from the Tar Heel N.C. packing plant of her sponsor Smithfield Foods who have faced years of anti-union campaigns. Now you can join other supporters of these workers in greeting Paula Deen on her visit to Chicago.
Immigration, Worker Rights, And Globalization
Economic Justice in the 21st Century
333 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago
Dr. Gabriela Lemus, Executive Director of the Labor Coalition for Latin American Advancement and a member of the USLEAP board of directors, will speak about the challenges of organizing for worker rights in a political climate that promotes unfettered economic globalization, while punishing the immigrant workers who are the result of those economic policies.
