Yearly Archives: 2009

The assistant public defender who held the number three rank in union seniority has retired after almost 35 years of service to the citizens of Cook County.  A retirment lunch, hosted by the local,  was held in honor of Dennis Urban’s retirement on December 30, 2009.  Brother, Michael Davidson delivered a spirited address to the attendees at [...]

This is an update regarding the transition of County employees covered by UniCare HMO which has withdrawn from the Illinois market, necessitating a switch in coverage for those County employees who had elected Unicare as their health insurance provider. We are pleased to announce that effective January 1, 2010, these employees will be covered by [...]

Resurrection wants to sell West Suburban and Westlake Hospitals Now is the time to make our voices heard! Resurrection management recently announced that they are starting negotiations on the possible sale of West Suburban and Westlake Hospitals with for-profit Vanguard Health Systems. In its statement, Resurrection said it would remain committed to employees and the [...]

Here is an article that appeared recently in the Daily Herald, written by Josh Stockinger.  It has been reprinted here with permission. Three Kane County judicial candidates in the Feb. 2 primary say they’re limiting or refusing campaign contributions from attorneys to avoid the appearance of bias in the courtroom. The rest, however, say the [...]

It appears that the Cook County Department of Corrections’ website is up and running so now you can locate individuals housed at Cook County Jail, without calling jail records,  by going to the following website: http://10.127.145.63/search/ or when not using the County’s ethernet, try http://www2.cookcountysheriff.org/search/

COOK COUNTY UPDATE FROM AFSCME COUNCIL 31 A News Bulletin for Cook County AFSCME Members: Sales Tax Repeal Threatens Services — A penny—or half penny—lost could have a very big cost for Cook County services.  The incessant battling over the one cent sales tax increase enacted by the County Board nearly two years ago may be heading for its [...]

Due to the short notice, the Union is extending the period within which to RSVP to the holiday party.  Please remember that if you are bringing a guest, to identify the guest by name in your RSVP.  For your convenience, the email address to RSVP is pdunionparty09@gmail.com . For clarification purposes, though extended, the deadline [...]

The Jack Carey Scholarship Selection committee met on November 19th to discuss the applicants for the Winter/Spring 2010 Award.  The committee, consisting of local president K. S. Galhotra, Melissa Smejkal, Michael Morrissey, Viola Rouse, Hon. Paul Stralka, Daniel Kiss,and David C. Thomas voted and chose James Vanzant as the winner. James was clerking over the [...]