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How an LGBTQ+ community health clinic ended up in a bruising labor battle with its workers
BY KIM KELLY Layoffs are in the air right now, with corporations like Microsoft, Google, Spotify, IBM, and many others making drastic cuts to their workforces in the name of lowering costs; even...
Feb 3, 2023
How a Sprawling Hospital Chain Ignited Its Own Staffing Crisis
By Rebecca Robbins, Katie Thomas and Jessica Silver-Greenberg Published by The New York Times,  Dec. 15, 2022 At a hospital in a Chicago suburb last winter, there were so few nurses that psychiatric patients...
Dec 21, 2022
WBEZ Newscast for Monday, December 5, 2022, 9:00 am
WBEZ Newscast for Monday, December 5, 2022, 9:00 am, Chicago’s NPR news station. Click here to listen.
Dec 5, 2022
Howard Brown Health Workers, Protesters Blast Planned Layoffs: ‘I’m Fighting For My Job Because I Love This Work’
By Kayleigh Padar and Jake Wittich The health care center's leaders say they must cut jobs to help reduce costs, but union members say they want proof layoffs are financially...
Dec 5, 2022
Largest LGBTQ+ health center in US midwest to lay off 15% of staff
By Mary Retta Staff cuts at Chicago community health center come at a time of high-profile attacks on queer and trans healthcare across the US Howard Brown Health, a nonprofit...
Dec 1, 2022
Chicago Nurses Set To Strike
Chicago Nurses Set To Strike By Kelly Gooch Members of the Illinois Nurses Association are set to strike Oct. 3 amid negotiations with Chicago-based Howard Brown Health. The union represents...
Sep 29, 2022