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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Isabel Funk

Signature Room owners failed to properly bargain over closure, union claims in NLRB filing

Nina Hernandez, a former server at the Signature Room for 18 years, speaks at a protest Oct. 4 by Unite Here Local 1. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file)

Owners of the famed Signature Room restaurant failed to provide workers an opportunity to bargain over the effects of the closure, according to a claim the union representing the workers filed Monday with the National Labor Relations Board.

United Here Local 1 filed the NLRB complaint a week after it filed a federal lawsuit saying owners failed to give workers adequate notice of their job losses. The union, which represents 132 former Signature Room workers, has also filed a complaint with the Illinois Department of Labor.

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