Longtime friend and fellow activist Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza of the 10th District in Chicago was once one of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s most loyal City Council supporters.

A former school counselor and area vice president for the Chicago Teachers Union who is the daughter of legendary and longtime Steelworkers Union President Edward Sadlowski, Sadlowski Garza was Lightfoot’s hand-picked chairman of the Committee on Workforce Development.

In that role, she helped Lightfoot pass a host of employee protections, including a predictable scheduling ordinance, an array of pandemic-related protections and, most recently, pay hikes and contracts for domestic workers and workers hired by airport contractors.

… Garza said:  “I have never met anybody who has managed to piss-off every single person they come in contact with. Police, fire, teachers, aldermen, businesses, manufacturing,” Sadlowski Garza said.

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