Unit of the Week: CC Forest Preserve Members
Members of the Cook County Forest Preserve work in many different types of roles with the overall objective of keeping our natural spaces beautiful and safe for residents to [...]
Forest Preserve
Members of Riverside School District 96 Custodians Win Big in New Contract
Riverside School District 96 Custodians Win Big in their New One (1) Year Agreement The new one (1) year contract was received and signed by Local 700 on behalf of the [...]
Members of the Cook County Forest Preserves ratify Contract
Congratulations, members of the Cook County Forest Preserves. The members of the Cook County Forest Preserves voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new agreement that will [...]
Teamsters Local 700 Continues to Fight Transfer of Grass Cutting Work
The Illinois Labor Relations Board (ILRB) notified Teamsters Local 700 of a hearing regarding the transfer of grass cutting work from the Cook County Highway to the Forest [...]
Local 700 Seeks Remedy for Transfer of Grass Cutting Work
In June 2015, members of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County alerted Teamsters Local 700 that they had been assigned to perform grass cutting on highway roadsides, [...]
Local 700 Forest Preserve Member Receives Back Pay due to Invalid Start Date
Teamsters Local 700 Cook County Forest Preserve member Andre Hope was recently awarded back pay after the union helped discover that his was missing more that he had [...]
Forest Preserve Members Overwhelmingly Ratify Contract
On Oct. 14, more than 100 members of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County came to Local 700 to vote on their new contract proposal. The contract was overwhelmingly [...]