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First Transit Chicago Presents Substandard Wage Proposal and Engages in Regressive Bargaining on Day Two of Negotiations

First Transit Chicago Presents Substandard Wage Proposal and Engages in Regressive Bargaining on Day Two of Negotiations

| December 7, 2022

Representatives of Local 727 and First Transit Chicago met today for the second day of bargaining over a successor collective bargaining agreement. Although Local 727’s bargaining committee had high hopes […]

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Boo at the Zoo Returns to Chicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo!

Boo at the Zoo Returns to Chicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo!

| October 4, 2022

Save the Date for Boo! at the Zoo The Boo! at the Zoo returns this October 8-23. Come support the hardworking Teamster members who work at the Brookfield Zoo this […]

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Chicago Sun-Times Highlights Longtime Union Funeral Home Matriarch

| August 26, 2021

The Chicago Sun-Times recently published an article on its website announcing the unfortunate passing of Margaret “Peggy” Cooney. Peggy helped operate Cooney Funeral Home, a longtime 727 represented funeral home.

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Local 727 Members Help Chicago Parking Meters Earn $500 Million in Profit

Local 727 Members Help Chicago Parking Meters Earn $500 Million in Profit

| July 1, 2021

With the help of the nearly one hundred Local 727 bargaining unit members who work as Meter Operators, Meter Enforcement Agents, General Meter Maintenance Technicians, and in the Closure Department […]

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