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AlterNet reports:
Illinois governor Bruce Rauner watched his anti-union bill called, "Right-To-Work", die a swift, cruel death in the House [May 14]. [...] The the tally [PDF] was 0 yes votes, 72 no votes, and 37 voting present.
Fun with math: The Illinois House has 118 members.
A handful of Republicans went for a walk during the vote, not publicly falling on one side or another.
Source: Chicago Sun Times
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Illinois Governor Gets Zero Votes On His "Right To Work" Bill
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by GungnirSniper on Monday May 18 2015, @03:20AM
The right to work is the right to not associate with a union one may disagree with in order to work. In much of the country the unions are an arm of the Democratic Party, and donate to their campaigns. Without the right to work, this means you must be in the union to do certain jobs, and your money will be automatically collected for the union right out of your paycheck. Your dues are then used for or against politicians you may or may not like. That's inherently unfair.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @05:12AM
The right to work is the right to not associate with a union one may disagree with in order to work.
This is it, right here. If you are such a class traitor that you cannot belong to an association of your fellow professionals, I can only assume that you are an ass-kissing asshole! It really is that simple. Unions do exert political influence, for the benefit of the working class. Now if you disagree with that, perhaps you are not a worker at all, and are only slumming? Well then you can bloody well afford to quit and live off your investments. If not, you are a freeloader, getting the benefits of an organized workforce, and not wanting to pay your fair share? Freeloading. Ass-kissing. David Spade's character in Coneheads. Bashar in Battlestar Galactica. The Company dude in Aliens. You are the company you keep, even if all your friends are fictional
(Score: 2, Interesting) by kurenai.tsubasa on Monday May 18 2015, @05:57AM
All of my friends are fictional, you insensitive clod!
More seriously, you bring up good points. Why would one want to devalue one's profession? One must draw a line: I am not willing to create some kind of software Rube Goldberg machine just to support your proprietary closed-source buggy rotten piece of shit softare. If every other dev says the same, then I have some kind of voice. If not, I have no voice, and an entrenched tellecommunications giant gets to continue to profit off its own fail. Since every other dev has actually said, “I don't care lol,” I have no leg to stand on.
(Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday May 18 2015, @03:21PM
If it's so straightforward, why the Orwellian double-speak?
Your own cognitive dissonance is so firmly entrenched, that you argue actively against logic, altruism, and your own self-interest.
You're betting on the pantomime horse...