This week on The Workers’ Mic, Powered by the MCL, Ken Edwards, Ed Maher, and Phil Davidson host their second live show from Café Bionda in the South Loop in Chicago. The guys kick off the show by chatting with the President of the Chicago Fire Fighters Union Local 2, Patrick Cleary about the lack of Local 2’s collective bargaining agreement for over three years and what they are still asking the city for over a year and three months. Then, Kevin McLaughlin, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council joins to talk about their Council Apprentice and Training Program which accepts applications starting Monday, September 9th. To close out the show Megent Financial Co-Chief Executive Officer and Café Bionda Co-owner Ron Whittingham joins the program alongside Café Bionda’s Head Chef Cosimo Riccardi to talk about the café as well as what makes Megent Financial so special.

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