House fails to ban local Right-to-Work ordinances

By Mailee Smith

10/25/2017

The Illinois House failed to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of Senate Bill 1905. If passed, the bill would criminalize local officials for enacting Right-to-Work ordinances.

TAGS: right to work

Illinois Senate votes to criminalize local leaders who enact Right to Work

By Mailee Smith

10/24/2017

State lawmakers supporting Senate Bill 1905 aren’t just seeking to crush the idea of Right to Work – they are seeking to crush anyone who supports it.

TAGS: right to work

Bill would criminalize actions of local leaders who enact Right to Work

By Mailee Smith

10/24/2017

Lawmakers supporting Illinois Senate Bill 1905 aren’t just seeking to crush the idea of worker freedom – they are seeking to harm anyone who supports it.

TAGS: local government, right to work

Palatine workers have right to strike, but that doesn’t include right to continued benefits

By Mailee Smith

10/21/2017

Under Illinois law, government employees can choose to walk out on strike – but it carries risks. Striking workers give up wages and benefit contributions – and maybe even their jobs – when they walk out.

TAGS: strike, unions

District 15 strike leaves Palatine-area students and parents in the lurch

By Mailee Smith

10/17/2017

When contract negotiations get tough, school employee unions should not be able to strike. It only serves to punish students and their parents, and it gives unions an unfair tool at the negotiating table.

TAGS: education, labor, strike, unions

Illinois’ next tax hike could mean pain at the pump

By Ted Dabrowski, John Klingner

09/29/2017

A proposed increase in gas taxes to pay for state infrastructure spending would impose another burden on overtaxed Illinoisans.

TAGS: gas tax, taxes

Illinois ranks 3rd-to-last in U.S. for state lawsuit climate

By Amy Korte

09/12/2017

Illinois ranked No. 48 of 50 states, and “Chicago or Cook County” was named the nation’s worst local jurisdiction in a survey of executives and attorneys about the fairness and reasonableness of state liability systems.

Labor Day weekend travel made pricier by Illinois’ gas taxes

By Brendan Bakala

09/02/2017

Illinois’ multilayered state and local gas taxes drive up prices at the pump

TAGS: gas tax

Indignation, action needed on Illinois’ jobs crisis

By Austin Berg

08/31/2017

Until Illinois lawmakers get serious about economic growth, don’t expect the state’s jobs trend to get off the depressing path it’s been treading for years.

TAGS: BLS: Bureau of Labor Statistics, ILGA: Illinois General Assembly, jobs, property taxes, unemployment, workers compensation

Stacked deck: Of all neighboring states, only Illinois gives strike powers to government unions

By Mailee Smith

08/31/2017

Illinois is the only state in the region that allows government workers to go on strike, effectively depriving residents of services they need and driving up the highest property tax bills in the nation.

TAGS: AFSCME: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, strike

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House fails to ban local Right-to-Work ordinances

Illinois Senate votes to criminalize local leaders who enact Right to Work

Bill would criminalize actions of local leaders who enact Right to Work

Palatine workers have right to strike, but that doesn’t include right to continued benefits

District 15 strike leaves Palatine-area students and parents in the lurch

Illinois’ next tax hike could mean pain at the pump

Illinois ranks 3rd-to-last in U.S. for state lawsuit climate

Labor Day weekend travel made pricier by Illinois’ gas taxes

Indignation, action needed on Illinois’ jobs crisis

Stacked deck: Of all neighboring states, only Illinois gives strike powers to government unions

FAQ: How the federal scholarship program would help Illinois students

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