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Chicago Unions Flex Political Muscle

Instead of fighting Mayor Daley, labor movement goes after his aldermen pawns

By David Moberg

Frustrated with city hall’s tilt to a business elite, Chicago’s labor unions decided to send Mayor Richard M. Daley a message: The “city that works” doesn’t work for working families. In the February and April elections, the labor movement broke with the city’s fabled but feeble Democratic machine, and helped oust key Daley allies and elect seven new members to the… return to article

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