Some 200,000 mail carriers have reached a tentative contract deal with the U. S. Postal Service that includes backdated pay raises and a promise to provide workers with air-conditioned trucks.
The new agreement, which still needs to be ratified by union members, runs through November 2026. Letter carriers have been working without a new contract since their old one expired in May 2023.
A stalemate between the new Chicago Sports Network and Comcast has been a static situation for Blackhawks fan and Xfinity customer Bailey Coleman.
Literally.
When the NHL season dawned this month without a carriage deal between her cable service and CHSN — the new TV home of the Hawks, Bulls and White Sox — the 25-year-old retail worker from Lake Zurich bought an antenna for her smart TV, but “trying to deal with it has been a nightmare.”
“I’ve tried it on every TV, and I do get some channels on the antenna, but never the ones for the Blackhawks game,” Coleman said.