A measure designed to make it easier for workers at Chicago nonprofit organizations to unionize is set for a key vote Tuesday amid a concerted effort by leaders of those groups — as well as Cardinal Blase Cupich — to defeat the proposal.
Federal and state laws protect employees’ ability to unionize, but managers and owners can push back against those efforts and urge their employees not to join a union.
The measure gained momentum in the weeks before the Feb. 28 election amid the continuing debate over Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s decision to break her 2019 campaign promise to reopen the mental health clinics closed by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2011. Instead, Lightfoot worked to fill “significant gaps” in Chicago’s mental health care system by turning to nonprofit organizations to deliver needed care.
As part of what city officials call the city’s network of Trauma-Informed Centers of Care, 44 organizations got tens of millions of dollars to treat 28,875 Chicagoans in the first nine months of 2022, according to Chicago Department of Public Health data provided to WTTW News. Each organization gets at least $250,000 to become part of the network, officials said.
“The approach of this administration has been to double down on this harmful neoliberal model where we provide urgent mental health services through mental health professionals who are exhausted, exploited and have little agency over how services are delivered,” said Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez . “We should care way more about how we provide services.”, one of the city’s largest trauma-informed centers of care, put those concerns in stark relief.
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