Chicago O'Hare Airport janitors spent much of the last year battling Mayor Rahm Emanuel's decision to award a five-year janitorial contract to a non-union cleaning company, United Maintenance, which has resulted in approximately 300 layoffs of union janitors.
Teamsters union leaders, allied with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, will no longer try to represent airport janitors working for a company the mayor hired last year amidst objections from other labor leaders.