Tension had been building for years between the firefighters union, called the Chicago Fire Fighters Union ... about the history of the department that chronicled the 1980 strike and titled ...

A striking firefighter wags his finger at Chicago’s first female firefighter recruit, Lauren Howard, outside the Fire Department gym in 1980. On the third day of the strike, the Tribune ...

A clause in a collective bargaining agreement from the early 1980s requires ... numbers aren’t unique to Chicago; the federal government has investigated fire departments in New York ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Chicago Fire Commissioner Richard ... discrimination at the Chicago Fire Department. They argued a 1980 consent decree should be amended to require roughly ...

Every firefighters contract since 1980 has included a clause that mandates 45% minority hiring — 30% Black and 15% Hispanic representation at all levels of the Chicago Fire Department — but ...