{"id":249254,"date":"2025-09-23T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/249254\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:29:10","slug":"chicagos-griffin-museum-of-science-and-industry-workers-authorize-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/249254\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago&#8217;s Griffin Museum of Science and Industry workers authorize strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Chicago Museum of Science and Industry workers authorize strike <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4df3ffd5a1d9539d09853d2fbc291578-0-1758639123377.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/video\/chicago-museum-of-science-and-industry-workers-authorize-strike\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Chicago Museum of Science and Industry workers authorize strike<\/p>\n<p>          00:27<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Union employees at Chicago&#8217;s Griffin Museum of Science and Industry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/griffin-museum-of-science-and-industry-union-begins-strike-authorization-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">voted to authorize a strike<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MSI employees formed a union with the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) two years ago, but they still don&#8217;t have a first contract with the museum.<\/p>\n<p>The union said more than 120 workers it represents haven&#8217;t gotten a raise since 2022. The union said the employees are often forced to work second jobs or skip means to support their families. Pay at the museum starts at the city&#8217;s minimum wage of $16.60 per hour. <\/p>\n<p>The union said, in addition to refusing fair pay increases, management also refuses to offer improvements in vacation or sick time, holiday pay for part-time employees, premium pay for bilingual employees, or any paid parental leave for workers.<\/p>\n<p>The vote to authorize a strike allows the union&#8217;s bargaining team to call a strike if they deem it necessary during ongoing contract negotiations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/search\/author\/cbs-chicago-team\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Chicago  Team<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">The CBS Chicago team covers breaking news, weather, groundbreaking investigations, and dedicated community reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Museum of Science and Industry workers authorize strike Chicago Museum of Science and Industry workers authorize strike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":249255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,132183,15742],"class_list":{"0":"post-249254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-museum-of-science-and-industry","12":"tag-union"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115254327674144927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}