What We’re Doing In Illinois Select typeArticleEventMedia HitMultimediaReportResolutionSpeechStatement Apply April 5, 2021 Blog Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Chicago Opens Vaccination Site for Front-Line Union Members Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. July 28, 2020 Blog Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Members of Rockford United Labor Help Build a ‘Strong Neighborhood House’ Members of Rockford United Labor, led by President Bill Corey (UBC), are working with contractors to build a new United Way “Strong Neighborhood House” in Rockford, Illinois. July 16, 2020 Blog Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Laborers Step Up to Provide Food Relief to Other Union Members Members of Laborers (LIUNA) Local 773 delivered fresh produce and dairy products to their union brothers, sisters and friends in Madison County, Illinois. October 19, 2018 Speech Trumka Highlights Labor's Ascension in Land of Janus This is the year of the worker. We’re rising together to reject an economy that only works for a handful of elites. We rising together to demand better. April 12, 2017 Blog The Plan Behind a Chicago Project to Lift Up Working People Jobs to Move America and community partners recently managed to ensure a project in Chicago will create good jobs and long-term economic opportunities for the community. April 7, 2017 Blog By Our Hands: Slow Justice Still Feels Good for Teamster Fired by Union-Busters “The whole thing took like six years. I was away from my job for six years,” said Marcus Hedger, who was illegally fired in 2010 for volunteering in his union as a shop steward. Load More