ILL. GOV. DECLARES WAR ON UNIONS !!!
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner Blocks Unions From Collecting 'Fair Share' FeesThe Huffington Post | By Sam Levine
Posted: 02/09/2015 8:36 pm EST Updated: 02/09/2015 11:59 pm EST
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Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) continued his campaign against labor unions on Monday, using executive authority to block public employee unions from collecting mandatory fees from workers.
Rauner told The Chicago Sun-Times that unions violate the First Amendment by using the funds to make contributions to political candidates. More than 6,500 employees in Illinois are required to pay "fair share fees," Rauner told the Chicago Tribune. Non-union workers in Illinois must pay fair share fees in lieu of union dues to cover costs of negotiating a contract that benefits them. Public employee unions in the state are required to represent all workers in a collective bargaining unit, regardless of whether they are members of the labor organization.
“Forced union dues are a critical cog in the corrupt bargain that is crushing taxpayers. Government union bargaining and government union political activity are inexorably linked,” Rauner told the Sun-Times. “An employee who is forced to pay unfair share dues is being forced to fund political activity with which they disagree. That is a clear violation of First Amendment rights –- and something that, as governor, I am duty-bound to correct.”
Anders Lindall, a spokesman for AFSCME, the largest Illinois public employee union, told the Sun-Times the organization doesn't use fair share fees for political contributions. AFSCME Council 31 executive director Roberta Lynch called Rauner's move "a blatantly illegal abuse of power" in a statement to the newspaper.
Rauner has hired a legal team to seek a declaratory judgement in federal court that would rule fair share fees unconstitutional.
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Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/09/bruce-rauner-unions_n_6648818.html
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We vote for:
Advisory Question: Advise the Legislature to raise minimum wage to $10 in 2015? Passed with 67% of vote.
Advisory Question: Advise the Legislature to require health insurance plans that cover prescription drugs to include contraception? Passed with 65% of vote.
Advisory Question: Advise the Legislature to increase the tax on incomes over $1 million by 3 percent, with revenue allocated for schools? Passed with 63% of vote.
Amend Constitution to expand certain rights already granted to crime victims in Illinois, and give crime victims the ability to enforce their rights in a court of law? Passed with 78% of vote.
Amend Constitution to prohibit any law that disproportionately affects the rights of citizens to vote based on personal characteristics? Passed with 71% of vote.
yet somehow collectively we cannot see Rauner as another midwest rich guy trying to make a name for himself at the expense of ordinary citizens?
We really are that stupid. 