Extra Extra: United Steelworkers Call For Labor Strike At BP Whiting
By Lisa White in News on Feb 7, 2015 9:15PM
- United Steelworkers is calling for their 1,085 members who work at BP Whiting Refinery to go on strike at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday. This effort will increase the number of national refineries where workers have walked off the job to 11. [Tribune]
- Heads up Edgewater and Rogers Park, Northbound Red Line trains will be shut down in parts of the area for a few hours tomorrow. [DNAinfo Chicago]
- There are now six confirmed cases of measles in Cook County. [Tribune]
- Police are warning residents in West Town and Logan Square to be on the lookout after a string of garage robberies. [DNAinfo Chicago]
- A Las Vegas man was arrested for a "swatting" incident that happened in Naperville. "Swatting" is when someone falsely reports a dangerous situation or crime to police so they are sent to another person's home. As the Sun-Times points out, it's "known as “swatting” because the hoax calls can lead to deployment of SWAT teams." [Sun-Times]
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