Union workers rallied outside the office of real estate developer North American Properties in Oak Park on Monday, May 16. Workers say the company is building a development in Schaumburg without using union labor.
Union workers rallied outside the office of real estate developer North American Properties in Oak Park on Monday, May 16. Workers say the company is building a development in Schaumburg without using union labor.
Union workers rallied outside the office of real estate developer North American Properties in Oak Park on Monday, May 16. Workers say the company is building a development in Schaumburg without using union labor.
Union workers rallied outside the office of real estate developer North American Properties in Oak Park on Monday, May 16. Workers say the company is building a development in Schaumburg without using union labor.
Union workers rallied outside the office of real estate developer North American Properties in Oak Park on Monday, May 16. Workers say the company is building a development in Schaumburg without using union labor.
Oak Parkers were greeted to a collection of inflatable pests, a corporate fat cat and a few dozen disgruntled union workers Monday morning on Lake Street outside the office of North American Properties.
Monday’s blow-up display at 1010 Lake St. included three inflatable rats, a cockroach and a menacing cat in a suit with a diamond pinky ring choking a construction worker.
Timothy Pinner, an organizer and marketing representative for Heat & Frost Insulators & Allied Workers Local 17, said the workers were protesting a residential real estate development being built in Schaumburg called North 680.
Pinner said the unions repeatedly have tried to meet with North American’s Charles Smoot to discuss the project, but Smoot never returned their calls. North American Properties could not immediately be reached for comment.
“It’s about a fair wage for workers with benefits,” Pinner said, adding that union workers also have been protesting the worksite in Schaumburg.
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