Tag: Gov. Bruce Rauner
Judge LeChien denies Madigan’s payroll request
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Belleville, IL – Illinois state employees who were concerned they might be thrown out of work breathed easier last week when...
35,000 AFSCME workers to vote on first-ever strike
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Belleville – The 35,000 members of AFSCME Council 31 –the largest group of Illinois government employees – are now holding...
Labor out-shouts Rauner’s rally on opening day
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Springfield, IL – Opening day of the Illinois Legislature is sometimes a day of high hopes and great expectations.
This year, not so...
Rauner wants union to pay $2 million a day for taking...
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Springfield, IL – Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner now wants to charge the largest union of state workers $2 million a day...
Illinois Democrats fail to override prevailing wage veto
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Springfield, IL – Labor and its supporters lost one more effort to override a veto by Governor Bruce Rauner, this time...
AFSCME: Rauner forms union-busting office
Documents recently provided to AFSCME by an anonymous whistleblower inside state government reveal that Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has established a new division dedicated...
Illinois state workers sue to block ‘impasse’ ruling
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Belleville, IL – Unionized state workers, staring down the possibility that Gov. Bruce Rauner could unilaterally remake their contract, sued last...
Rauner-appointed board rules ‘impasse’ in state workers contract dispute
By CARL GREEN
Correspondent
Springfield, IL – For the first time, impasse has been declared in contract talks between the state of Illinois and about 40,000...
Governor Rauner won’t give raise to care workers, but will give...
BY CARL GREEN
Correspondent
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner declared Sept. 11-17 “DSP Week” for Direct Support Personnel – workers who help developmentally and intellectually disabled people –...
Rauner spending $$$ against southern Illinois labor supporters
By CARL GREEN
Correspondent
Since 2003, three Democratic legislators have stood as a southern Illinois bulwark against Republican and corporate attempts to push unions out of...