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In the first major union drive to reach the office in decades, a group of assistant state’s attorneys have asked the office to voluntarily recognize a bargaining unit that would represent hundreds of government lawyers working for the country’s second largest prosecutor’s office.
A majority of Cook County assistant state’s attorneys in the proposed bargaining unit have signed union authorization cards with Teamsters Local 700, according to a letter sent to State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke. Representatives declined to say what percentage of attorneys signed cards. The prosecutors are motivated by a desire to improve wages and working conditions in a notoriously grueling job, union representatives said.
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