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
(Score: 3, Insightful) by sjames on Monday May 18 2015, @03:56AM
And yet they pay more than the big 3 pay the union workers up north. Perhaps they understand that trying to screw their employees is a losing deal.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by albert on Monday May 18 2015, @04:59AM
Sure. Without the uncertainty and overhead of dealing with a union, those workers are worth more.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by sjames on Monday May 18 2015, @07:34AM
Perhaps if the big three would try treating workers like the foreign companies do, they wouldn't be so interested in being in a union.
Funny how it's apparently OK for a large corporation to throw it's weight around against individual employees but god forbid the employees should band together for collective bargaining.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @10:04AM
There is a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee.
VW **wanted** a union there.
The local gov't used scare tactics and got the rank and file to vote against the union.
Life in the USA is weird.
-- gewg_