(H/T – WI State Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills))
The Chicago Tribune reports Democrat Illinois governor Pat Quinn is urging the Illinois state Senate to follow the House in stripping collective bargaining privileges for certain “management” positions in state government, including attorneys, legislative liasons and deputy chiefs of staff for state agencies to save money and create a (false) sense of management separate from the unionista process.
Predictably, the unionistas are squealing, even though if the bill passed, 92 percent of state employees would still remain unionized. Apparently, they like the idea of potentially having only 760 of Illinois’ 45,000 public employees be non-union.
I’m torn betwee the politicians on the far side of the toll booths having a moment of clarity and them continuing to be wholly-owned subsidiaries of Duh Union. The Tribune noted the Senate wasn’t likely to follow the House’s lead, so the exodus out of the Land of Hype and Change will continue.
Steve –
What happens if, let’s say, the R’s win their recalls, and then the D’s contest those recalls in court. During the pendency of the court challenges, are the Senate seats considered to be occupied by their current resident, or is the seat considered to be ‘undecided until court judgement’, like it would be if a regular election was contested, and the prior holder’s term expired ?
IOW, could the D’s use this tactic to cripple the R’s in the Senate, effectively creating 3 or more ‘unoccupied seats’ for some few months ? Effectively the same delaying tactic they used with the union bill ( which STILL isn’t in effect ) ?
Tks.