Chicago City Wire

Chicago’s City Council recently approved the first in a new generation of collective bargaining agreements for the City of Chicago. The agreements with the Coalition of Unionized Public Employees (COUPE) come at a time when all of the city’s collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) have expired. In this environment, the COUPE agreements, covering about 22 percent of the city’s unionized workforce, set the tone for the rest of the city’s negotiations. They also affect five years of city finances. What’s in the COUPE contracts and what we might expect to see in the next labor agreements?

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