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The Safe Patients Limit Act would cap the number of patients per registered nurse in Illinois.
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Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch, D-Hillsdale, says he hopes to pass the bill in the upcoming veto session.
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Judge Robert A. Ringler found the Seattle-based coffee chain broke the law by punishing workers who wore union T-shirts and by threatening employees that they would lose their scheduled raises, benefits increases and access to management because of their union activities.
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“To come into a job every day that is supposed to have your back and they tell you to take down your Pride decorations, it’s kind of like a slap in the face,” said one worker.
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Employees have formed the Illinois Legislative Staff Association, but Speaker Welch won’t voluntarily recognize them.
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The St. Louis Police Officers Association’s new contract with the city would be voided if the state takes control of the department, which is being considered by the Missouri legislature
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The officers say they work for less than other area cops to patrol streets that are more dangerous.
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The United Brotherhood of Carpenters shuttered its St. Louis regional council. Oversight of St. Louis-area union locals will now come from the organization’s Chicago office. Pat White of the Greater St. Louis Central Labor Council and political scientist Anita Manion of UMSL discuss the fallout.
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Updated at 4:30 p.m. July 14th, with legal opinion from lawyers supporting St. Louis RisingLeaders behind a petition effort to put airport privatization…
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The transit union that represents MetroBus and MetroLink workers voted Monday to reject Bi-State Development’s most recent proposed new employment…