Just what we didn’t need… Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers went on strike at midnight Wednesday against contractors all over the greater metro area of northeast Illinois. The unions’ three-year contracts with construction companies expired May 31. The strike effects hundreds of summer construction projects, from the Eisenhower Expressway down to Downers Grove. [...]
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