After languishing in limbo for more than three years, a proposal designed to make it easier for workers at Chicago nonprofit organizations to unionize advanced Tuesday and now heads to the Chicago City Council for a final vote on Wednesday.
Federal and state laws protect employees’ ability to unionize, but managers and owners can push back against those efforts and urge their employees not to join a union.
Cupich, the head of the Archdiocese of Chicago, said the proposal will “not only will hamper the ability of Catholic Charities and our peers to fulfill our shared mission to our neighborhoods in need, but may threaten the continued existence of many of our partners.” “This is a very simple thing,” Rodriguez Sanchez said, adding that it was “degrading” to the people who work for nonprofit social service agencies to suggest that it would be too expensive to allow them to exercise their right to join a union.“We say we’re a union town,” Vasquez said. “This requires a bare minimum of not union busting.”
While Lightfoot and Arwady said nonprofit organizations provided the same quality mental health care to Chicagoans as publicly run clinics, progressive members of the City Council strenuously objected.
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