The Chicago City Council voted 41-2 Wednesday to make it easier for workers at Chicago nonprofit organizations to unionize. “This is a matter of justice and equity for workers — most of them women, many of them Black and Brown.”
— was approved with a veto-proof majority and no substantive debate. Ald. Tom Tunney and Ald. Brian Hopkins voted against the measure, while several other City Council members left the chamber just before the vote took place.
“This is a matter of justice and equity for workers — most of them women, many of them Black and Brown — when they choose to come together and make things better for themselves and the people they serve,” Kaplan said in a statement. “We have serious concern that many providers will opt out of providing city services because they cannot afford these investments and will not have the legal or operational expertise to navigate federal law,” the Chicago Alliance for Collaborative Effort, a coalition of 44 social service agencies, said in a statement. “As a result, Chicago residents will have fewer resources at a time when they are needed most.
The proposal would require human service organizations that contract with the city and have more than 20 employees to agree not to fight efforts by their employees to unionize as long as workers agree not to disrupt the company’s operations while they organize.
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