Agency fees, the First Amendment and Rauner’s executive order

By Jeffrey Schwab

02/21/2015

When it comes to collecting ‘fair share’ fees, abolishing the practice would be the only outcome that’s truly fair to workers across the country.

TAGS: agency fees, Bruce Rauner, executive order

Freedom for workers – teachers can get out of paying union dues

By Paul Kersey

10/01/2013

Illinois public school teachers are required to financially support unions whether they want to or not. They don’t have much of a choice – it’s either pay up, or give up teaching. Union bosses claim to have teachers’ best interests in mind, but despite this they sometimes make outrageous demands that cost teachers their jobs....

TAGS: agency fees, Civil Rights Act, Hudson Rights, Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, TRS: Teachers’ Retirement System

Pathway to a Profession: How Apprenticeships Could Reshape Illinois’ Beauty Service Industry

Occupational licensing requirements present one of the steepest barriers to low-income Illinoisans starting careers in beauty services. Illinois requires anyone seeking to become a barber, cosmetologist, nail technician or hair braider to obtain a state license, essentially a permission slip to work. Unlike 45 other states, Illinois offers only one pathway to licensure for each...

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Agency fees, the First Amendment and Rauner’s executive order

Freedom for workers – teachers can get out of paying union dues

Pathway to a Profession: How Apprenticeships Could Reshape Illinois’ Beauty Service Industry

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

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