Park District changes employee health carrier. see page 3. SPoRtS
SChoolS
North wins title at Joliet West
School District shores up Internet safety PAGE 13
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T HE ENTERPRISE Your Complete Source For Plainfield News Since 1887
thursday, December 5, 2013
Volume 126 no. 18
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Glasgow asks NLRB if assistants can do union work More than 1,000 members of AFSCME Local 1028 have been on strike since Nov. 18 By Nick Reiher Managing Editor
BY SUZANNE BAKER | enterpriSe reporter fter a week of weather that put the brrr in breezy, sunshine and balmy temperatures in the 50s greeted shoppers in downtown plainfield on Saturday for the annual candlelight christmas.
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main Street Candy and toys is decked out for the holidays like an old-fashioned emporium both inside and out.
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Will County State’s Attorney Jim Glasgow has asked the National Labor Relations Board for clarification after receiving a letter from union officials seeking to have assistant state’s attorneys stop filling in for striking workers. In the Nov. 13 letter to Glasgow, Joe Pluger of AFSCME Council 31 cited a section of the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act and a 1998 Will County State’s court case to back up Attorney Jim a claim that “Assistant Glasgow State’s Attorneys cannot be required to perform the duties of employees who are permitted to strike. Any other interpretation of the Act would be inconsistent with the Act and would undercut the rights of employees engaged in a lawful strike.” More than 1,000 members of AFSCME Local 1028, which includes clerical workers in the State’s Attorney’s Office, have been on strike since Nov. 18.They are upset about the county’s plan to increase employees’ health insurance costs and not cover them with a corresponding
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