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Chicago school board approves lunchroom worker contract raising wages to $21 minimum

Represented CPS lunchroom workers in the contract fight

Chicago's school lunchroom workers won the raises they spent more than a year fighting for. The Board of Education approved a four-year contract Thursday that sets a $21 minimum hourly wage for roughly 1,500 cooks, attendants, and porters represented by Unite Here Local 1.

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