Category: Business
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Picketers Demand Local (Union) Labor at Costco
Seems like the Gazette’s missing the real story here: A group of unemployed tradespeople, many with union cards, have been picketing Near West Side construction sites for more than a month, demanding that community workers get a share of both local building jobs as well as permanent retail positions. via Gazette Chicago. From what I…
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Let’s all Welcome ThyssenKrupp to Chicago
As ThyssenKrupp plans to dramatically increase its presence in Chicago it’s finding out just what life here is really like: … [T]he German-based ThyssenKrupp manufacturing company is facing allegations that company supervisors in the city created a hostile and intimidating work environment for an African-American employee. A superintendant at ThyssenKrupp used the N-word “routinely” around…
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ThyssenKrupp (w/ 100 jobs) Coming to Chicago
We actually rock (and we kinda know it.) Germany-based ThyssenKrupp, a diversified manufacturing company that makes elevators, auto components and carbon steel, will establish a regional headquarters for North America in Chicago this summer…. The company did not seek financial incentives as it considered more than 20 cities around the U.S. for the regional headquarters.…
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Who’s Pro Business?
Recently published is a series of stories on where it’s easier/better to start and run a business. Whether we like it or not, businesses employ people; people do not employ businesses. Creating and maintaining a pro-business environment is not easy. But sure Illinois generally, and Chicago specifically, are failing… or are they? First, a national…