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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   
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

• Re:Japanese do build cars here... in non-union sta Re:Japanese do build cars here... in non-union sta (Score: 5, Insightful) by sjames on Monday May 18 2015, @07:34AM

  by sjames (2882) on Monday May 18 2015, @07:34AM (#184390) Journal

  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.

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• Foreign Manufacturers in USA (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @10:04AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @10:04AM (#184434)

  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_

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