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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: 2) by aristarchus on Monday May 18 2015, @07:10PM
The unionization of American industry did lead to its downfall. That's a fact.
Not too bright, eh? Alright, I will repeat. It is not a fact, it is a theory. You might be able to say that American industry "fell" (what are your definitions and data on this, anyway? Did not actually "fall", you know!) some time after America reached its highest level of unionization (which was still pretty pathetic, for a civilized first-world economy). Now thinking that some thing happens because of something that happened before it is not a fact, it is a theory, a possible explanation. And if you leap to a conclusion by asserting your theory is a fact, you are making an assumption of causality. There is a name for this, it is called the post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy, or "after this, therefore because of this."
Now that we are aware that you are one of the ACs whose intellect is truly dizzying, perhaps you could explain again the mechanism by which unionization brought about the downfall of American industry? I know, I know, since you maintain it is just a brute fact, it does not need explaining. But humor the rest of us. How did this actually work?