RPCAN
Pushes for Local Hiring
Referendum for Primary
BY ANGELA CAPUTO
STAFF WRITER
Some Rogers Park residents pounded the pavement last weekend to build support for an advisory referendum in the March 21 primary that would pressure elected officials to do more local hiring on taxpayer supported projects.
Members of the local grassroots organizing nonprofit the Rogers Park Community Action Network (RPCAN) helped to get the initiative on the ballot in five precincts of the 49th Ward.
They are asking neighbors to support their call for preferential local hiring, living wage requirements and the right of workers to organize in any company or institution-with 10 or more employees-that gets public money, including tax increment financing dollars.
Currently there is no cohesive plan for how potential, local workers could benefit from the up to $200 million in public subsidies pledged for development in the Devon/Sheridan TIF, the new Howard L station, field house at Gale Park or the TIF drawn around the S&C Electric company.
Pushes for Local Hiring
Referendum for Primary
BY ANGELA CAPUTO
STAFF WRITER
Some Rogers Park residents pounded the pavement last weekend to build support for an advisory referendum in the March 21 primary that would pressure elected officials to do more local hiring on taxpayer supported projects.
Members of the local grassroots organizing nonprofit the Rogers Park Community Action Network (RPCAN) helped to get the initiative on the ballot in five precincts of the 49th Ward.
They are asking neighbors to support their call for preferential local hiring, living wage requirements and the right of workers to organize in any company or institution-with 10 or more employees-that gets public money, including tax increment financing dollars.
Currently there is no cohesive plan for how potential, local workers could benefit from the up to $200 million in public subsidies pledged for development in the Devon/Sheridan TIF, the new Howard L station, field house at Gale Park or the TIF drawn around the S&C Electric company.
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