Warehouse Work in Will County
The group Warehouse Workers for Justice recently held a press conference in downtown Joliet where they released the results of a survey they conducted of warehouse workers in Will County. The group used the following methods to conduct the survey: "The vast majority of the surveys–84%–were conducted outside of grocery stores, malls, gas stations, libraries, community centers, and check cashing stores in Joliet, Romeoville, and Bolingbrook, IL. The locations were identified as places where workers were known to be found, based on the knowledge of warehouse workers. Interviewers in these locations asked each person who passed the whether they worked in a warehouse, regardless of gender, race,...