Chicago's most powerful labor leader on Monday issued a thinlyveiled warning to Mayor Daley: End the two-year-long negotiatingstalemate with unions representing 20,000 city employees or risk theembarrassment that comes with labor unrest when Chicago plays host tothe U.S. Conference of Mayors in June.
Chicago Federation of Labor President Dennis Gannon turned up theheat even as he acknowledged that, after 64 bargaining sessions over24 months, negotiators are finally making progress on work-rulechanges and furlough days that Daley says he needs to save $20million a year.
"If this was normal negotiations on the outside, we would have hadthis shut down [with a strike or …
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