Broken Teamsters lease puts spotlight on Rahm Emanuel ally John Coli

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Barely a year into a 15-year deal, a union representing more than 12,000 government employees in the Chicago area broke the lease on its headquarters in Des Plaines and moved to new quarters in Park Ridge.

Teamsters Local 700’s actions have prompted a lawsuit against the union by its old landlords, who are claiming damages “in the millions of dollars.”
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But the move gave John Coli, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s biggest ally in organized labor, plenty of reason to smile.

Local 700’s new home: an office building that just weeks earlier had been bought by the pension fund for another arm of the Teamsters, Local 727, long headed by Coli. He was an early, outspoken and generous supporter of Emanuel’s 2011 campaign for mayor, even as other union leaders opposed Emanuel or watched the race from the sidelines.

Coli’s sister, Susan Fosco, is property manager for the office building at 1300 W. Higgins Rd. in Park Ridge, a job she landed a few months after a company owned by the Local 727 pension plan bought the building, U.S. Department of Labor records show.

For a look at Local 727 click on this and of course this. For more on the name Fosco and unions in Chicago click on this.