Art Institute of Chicago Workers United
Get Out the Vote
Art Institute of Chicago Workers United (AICWU) advocates for an equitable, sustainable, and transparent workplace for all employees. To achieve these values, staff at the museum and school have decided to form our unions with AFSCME Council 31. Both the employees of Art Institute of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago won their unions in January of 2022 with almost 80% vote margins.
These Coffee Shop Workers Could Make History.
A historic union vote has just begun at @ColectivoCoffee in CHI, MKE and MDN. If they win, they would be the LARGEST union cafè in the US. The PLRI created a video to turn out public support for local staff with a call-to-action to write “UnionYes” on your next coffee and share a picture with #UnionYes and #IBEWStrong.
Amazonians United Chicagoland Walkout
For the first time, Amazon experienced a multi-site U.S. work stoppage. It comes at the end of a year marked by union organizing and labor militancy at the retail giant. We captured this historic worker action and edited together a short documentary for More Perfect Union.
Women’s March 2017 Retrospective
Here is a look back on the overwhelming good to come from the Chicago Women's March back in 2017.
