Cook County workers strike ends, but at cost to union relations with Preckwinkle, which she admits ‘have been damaged’ but aren’t her ‘primary responsibility’

“One of the things that’s happened, of course, is that my relationships with SEIU have been damaged, but my primary responsibility is not, frankly, my relationship with SEIU,” Preckwinkle said. “It’s to the residents and taxpayers in Cook County, to be a good steward of county government, and that’s what I’ve tried to do.”