
Talia Soglin
Business Reporter at Chicago Tribune
biz + labor @chicagotribune | [email protected] she/her
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1 month ago |
thebrunswicknews.com | Talia Soglin
By Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune Chicago's hometown hot dog giant Portillo's is in the midst of an ambitious national expansion, and now a proxy fight may be brewing in its boardroom. Activist investor Engaged Capital, which took a nearly 10% stake in the Oak Brook-based company last year, said Monday that it has nominated two independent candidates to the company's board.
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1 month ago |
chicagotribune.com | Talia Soglin
Chicago’s hometown hot dog giant Portillo’s is in the midst of an ambitious national expansion, and now a proxy fight may be brewing in its boardroom. Activist investor Engaged Capital, which took a nearly 10% stake in the Oak Brook-based company last year, said Monday that it has nominated two independent candidates to the company’s board.
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1 month ago |
chicagotribune.com | Talia Soglin
More than 2,000 grocery workers employed at Tony’s Fresh Market could unionize if they vote to be represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 881. UFCW filed petitions for union elections with the National Labor Relations Board on Feb. 14. The local is seeking to represent about 2,400 grocery clerks, assistant managers and department managers at the 21 Tony’s grocery stores throughout Chicago and its suburbs.
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2 months ago |
columbian.com | Talia Soglin
CHICAGO — A union seeking to represent Trader Joe’s workers at a Chicago grocery store notched a win in a hotly contested union election Tuesday. But Trader Joe’s said it plans to appeal the decision, a move that could stall the case indefinitely before the paralyzed National Labor Relations Board, which has not been able to issue decisions even in routine cases since President Donald Trump fired one of the board’s members in the early days of his presidency.
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2 months ago |
bnd.com | Talia Soglin
A group of Cook County prosecutors has filed a union petition with the Illinois Labor Relations Board after State's Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke missed a deadline their union set to provide voluntary recognition of their proposed bargaining unit, which would include hundreds of assistant state's attorneys who staff the country's second-largest prosecutor's office.
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Really big loss for UFCW in Chicago this week: Tony's workers voted 1,115-605 against unionizing https://t.co/OVk9RbLUBX

One of the biggest union elections so far this year is taking place in Chicago this week: https://t.co/JB8uZDK062