Custodians and maintenance workers for Elementary District 130 serving Alsip, Blue Island, Crestwood and Robbins are calling for the removal of the district’s superintendent and assistant superintendent of human resources as they work to negotiate their union contract.

SEIU Local 73 said the district has canceled two contract bargaining sessions since negotiations started in the summer, but union conflict with Superintendent Colleen McKay and Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Carrie Tisch dates back to 2022.

“The administration has repeatedly retaliated against union stewards and workers, and employees have been punished for alleged violations and then terminated or those same supposed violations,” the union said in a news release Tuesday.

Field organizer Doug Taylor said amon

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