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Recent Article Confirms Troubling Trend For Workers

When economic times in America get tough, one undeserved group always gets caught up in the negative attention: labor. In a January article , the New Yorker pointed out a growing anti-labor sentiment in America. As the article discussed, sixty percent of Americans surveyed in a recent poll stated that Unions had too much power. The article also mentions the fact that, currently, only seven percent of private sector workers belong to unions. The anti-labor movement in America is no...

Illinois Workers Compensation Reform on the Horizon

Many of our clients and friends are aware that the Illinois legislature recently considered a pro-business, anti-worker, and anti-union workers compensation bill during the veto session in January. With intense lobbying by so many people concerned about this damaging legislation we were able to hold off a vote on this terrible bill. Frankly, all of our lobbying efforts most likely convinced enough of our legislative friends that this bill would hurt injured workers, medical providers, union health and welfare funds,...

GWC Attorney Secures Compensation for Injured Bus Driver

Raul V. Rodriguez, a workers compensation attorney at GWC Injury Lawyers, recently obtained a favorable ruling for his client when the Illinois Workers Compensation Commission ruled that benefits should be paid to a bus company employee who was injured on a school stairway in-between bus routes. In order to make a successful claim for workers compensation benefits, an injured person must be able to prove that her injury occurred during the course of her employment. The Commission has previously ruled...