The City of Chicago is in the process of renegotiating contracts with all of its labor unions, which make up the vast majority of the city’s 34,000 or so employees. The first of these negotiations, which came to a close in January, yielded a new five-year contract with trade unions, laborers, and teamsters, collectively the Coalition of Unionized Public Employees (COUPE) and has been deemed a win for the city.
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