Compass Levy workers strike outside the United Center in March 2023. About 290 hospitality workers have unionized with Unite Here Local 1 since March 2022. Credit: Courtesy Unite Here Local 1

Professor Bruno quoted in Chicago Reader | Bosses Beware

The Chicago Reader says Chicago’s service and cultural workers are unionizing like never before. Professor Bruno weighs in. Read the article here.

“They felt like their employers didn’t give a damn,” Bruno says. “For a while, maybe they got some hazard pay, maybe they were called heroes. But then the pandemic ends [and] the hazard pay goes away. All of a sudden, they’re not heroes anymore.”