Arise & Partners Celebrate Historic New Worker Protections in Chicago

Historic advance for domestic workers, anti-wage theft protections, added paid sick leave use among wins

After ongoing push back from Arise Chicago, our partner National Immigration Law Center, additional organizations, and legislators including U.S. Rep. Chuy Garcia, the Social Security Administration recently announced it would end the use of “No Match” letters!

COVID-19 in the Workplace

COVID-19 en el Lugar del Trabajo

COVID-19 w Miejscu Pracy

Black Lives Matter.   Las Vidas Negras Importan.  Czarne zycia sie licza.

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Re-Imagine Worker Rights as we Re-Imagine Labor Day!

Reimagina los derechos de los trabajadores como re-imaginamos el Día del Trabajo!

Después del 1º de Julio, ¡Checa tu cheque!

Po 1 lipca sprawdź czek!

After July 1, Check Your Check!

Arise Chicago and National Coalition End SSA’s Most Egregious “No Match” Language. 

Changes critically include eliminating arbitrary, impossible deadline

Lincolnwood Workers, Residents Win Back County Earned Sick Time

Celebrate reinstating ordinance for over 1,700 local workers

Express outrage as board abandons county minimum wage workers

Lincolnwood residents and worker rights organization Arise Chicago celebrated the victory restoring Cook County sick time to the northern suburb after months of organizing and meeting with Village Board members. The change will go into effect starting July 1, 2020. At the January 7, 2020 Village Board meeting, the Lincolnwood Village Board voted to end its 2017 “opt out” of the Cook County Sick Time ordinance, thereby bringing the protection back to 1,764 local workers.

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Each Labor Day weekend Arise Chicago and the Chicago Federation of Labor  organize the Labor in the Pulpit/on the Bima/in the Minbar. This year we will be present in 112 services.