Low-wage workers face long waits and high dismissal rates when filing stolen wage claims with the state labor department.
Perspectives
Fifty years later, what the Kerner report tells us about race in Chicago today
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Many of the city’s racial disparities in 2018 are all too similar to those of 1968, when a federal commission analyzed the causes of racial tensions in cities across the country.
Perspectives
Widening the tent for a multiracial labor movement
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Unions, which embraced black workers, must better address immigrant rights and the struggle against police violence.
Behind the Data
Cómo investigamos la recuperación de salarios en el Departamento Laboral de Illinois
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Un análisis de miles de denuncias de robo de salario muestra que hay poca probabilidad de que un trabajador recupere su sueldo en Illinois.
Cuando les roban el salario, pocos trabajadores de Illinois recuperan sus sueldos
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Los trabajadores que reportan robo de salarios ahora enfrentan periodos de espera más largos, un porcentaje mayor de despidos y más burocracia.
Behind the Data
How we investigated wage enforcement at the Illinois Department of Labor
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An analysis of thousands of wage complaints shows that workers face long odds of recouping pay in Illinois.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
On $15 minimum wage hike, Rauner should listen to constituents
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A bill sitting on the governor’s desk would heed the call of Illinois voters, a majority of whom endorsed a minimum wage increase in a 2014 referendum.
Perspectives
For middle-class blacks, success can be a double-edged sword
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Higher incomes and education levels can only take blacks so far up the social ladder, a new study on racial disparities in Chicago shows.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Rauner, Emanuel getting more than they bargained for with charters
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Chicago is now the most heavily unionized charter school system in the nation. And for the second time in a year, charter teachers threatened to go on strike. That’s certainly not the direction Gov. Bruce Rauner and Mayor Rahm Emanuel thought they were headed a few years ago.
Employment and Labor
Chicago needs to better enforce labor ordinances, aldermen and advocates say
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Lax enforcement of the minimum wage hike highlights the need for a dedicated Office of Labor Standards to ensure workers are getting their due, worker groups say.
Employment and Labor
Chicago’s lax enforcement of minimum wage hike leaves workers in the lurch
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Unlike in other cities, no new resources have been dedicated to policing new labor ordinances in Chicago, resulting in toothless oversight and few options for underpaid workers to recoup wages.