{"id":215967,"date":"2010-01-23T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=12805"},"modified":"2010-01-23T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T14:30:15","slug":"city-of-chicago-truck-drivers-consider-strike-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/215967","title":{"rendered":"City of Chicago truck drivers consider strike vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"About 2,000 City of Chicago truck drivers plan a vote next week which might authorize a strike that could cripple such vital city services as snow removal, garbage collection and airport operations.<\/p>\n

The drivers say the action is in protest against Mayor Richard M. Daley’s decision to reduce their hours.<\/p>\n

Daley wants to move O’Hare and Midway Airport snow removal drivers from a guaranteed, eight-hour work day to just two hours on days without snow. <\/span><\/p>\n

Local Teamsters union officials say Daley is punishing the union for rejecting his demand for furlough days and comp time instead of cash overtime.<\/p>\n

Chicago Law Department spokeswoman Jennifer Hoyle insists the Teamsters’ contract specifically prohibits them from striking.<\/p>\n

–The Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n

Read the original article from Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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About 2,000 City of Chicago truck drivers plan a vote next week which might authorize a strike that could cripple such vital city services as snow removal, garbage collection and airport operations. The drivers say the action is in protest against Mayor Richard M. Daley’s decision to reduce their hours. Daley wants to move O’Hare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}