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Whenever big Wall Street banks, financial institutions and billionaire investors gamble with our economy, working people are the ones who feel the pain. Our jobs, our homes and our retirement savings take huge hits when the banking system or the market collapses.

The Livingston & McLean Counties Building & Construction Trades Council and the Bloomington & Normal Trades & Labor Assembly, are hosting a candidates' night on July 27, 6:30 p.m., Laborers Local 362 Hall, 2012 Fox Creek Road, Bloomington.

Bloomington- Normal's Labor Day Parade will march at 10 a.m. on Monday, September 7, 2026, from downtown Bloomington to Miller Park.

This year's theme is "Solidarity for the next 250," reflecting the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Ending their four-week strike at Illinois State University in Normal on April 6, an overwhelming majority of the more than 300 building services, grounds, dining services, and other ISU employees represented by AFSCME Local 1110 voted to ratify the new union contract agreement reached

Advocating full educational funding, multiple unions are uniting in a “People Over Profits” statewide campaign, entitled Fair Funding Fridays.  Education unions gathered at Normal’s Uptown Circle on Friday, February 6, to echo that call.