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Illinois Governor Gets Zero Votes On His "Right To Work" Bill

posted by n1 on Monday May 18 2015, @12:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the right-to-shirk dept.

"gewg_" writes:

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @04:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @04:01AM (#184331)

    I do actuarial consulting for pensions and you're oversimplifying. Levels of pension benefits and levels of pay vary from place to place. Overall, changes in public sector payroll tend to lag corresponding changes in private sector payroll, which makes sense given that the public sector tends to keep doing the same thing it's been doing in mid recession and doesn't start sorting out the shortfalls until the recovery.

    A lot of the most severe fundi problems for public sector pensions are for police and fire plans where the participants are not covered by social security. These plans tend to have generous early retirement provisions allowing unreducedretirement somewhere between 20 and 30 years of service. The reason for this is that it's a low turnover profession and if you don't offer these provisions, you end up with a fire department with an average age over 50 and you can't fire someone for being too old. The pensions are actually cheaper than the alternatives to this personnel management problem, although in some cases there may be ways to tone the benefits down and still get the same effect.