*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: More than 16,000 Kids in Chicago Public Schools Are Homeless. Teachers Just Went on Strike to Help Them. Author: Alex Lubben Source: Vice

*Date: *Oct 17, 2019

*Summary:* “What’s really exciting about what the teachers are doing in Chicago is really putting it [affordable housing] in the contract demands, front and center,” said *Marilyn Sneiderman*, *director of Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at Rutgers University*. “Historically, unions have actually set up affordable housing. They’ve been involved with advocating legislatively for good housing laws.”

*Link:* http://bit.ly/31rKvVm

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