Your daily “right to work” roundup
Thursday, May 7, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller
* From the governor’s office…
Hi, Rich –
Coal Valley and Chebanse have passed the resolution.
Thanks!
ck
Coal Valley population: 3,743
Chebanse population: 1,036
* Text message from a union official…
100 in attendance in Coal Valley last night. All speakers opposed to the Rauner resolution which nonetheless passed with one dissenting vote.
* Meanwhile, Kane County removed all reference to the anti-union stuff in its resolution…
A revised draft of a Kane County resolution to support reform in Springfield passed the Executive Committee unanimously Wednesday (May 6, 2015), setting the stage for a full Kane County Board vote on May 12.
Kane County Board Chairman Chris Lauzen set the tone and direction for Wednesday’s discussion by crediting County Board members Deborah Allan and Ron Ford, both Democrats, with language revisions and editing that helped gain the unanimous recommendation.
“We have very diverse opinions,” Lauzen said. “Our purpose today is to find common ground where we can generate a consensus. Not everyone can agree on all the pieces, but what we’ve tried to do is see where the common ground is.” […]
The County Board is comprised of 13 Republicans and 11 Democrats, and committee members from each political party said they made compromises to come to an agreement. District 18 Board member Drew Frasz, a Republican, said he would have preferred the resolution include language supporting lawsuit reform, an “empowerment zone” and several other ideas that are part of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s Illinois Turnaround initiative.
“It’s been said that successful negotiation is when both parties are not totally happy,” Frasz said. “But I will vote in favor of this resolution, because this compromise does say Kane County is in support of reform.”
Lauzen wasn’t much of a compromiser when he was in the Illinois Senate, but he appears to have grown considerably at the county level. The full resolution is here. Scroll to the bottom.
* The lame duck Chicago City Council passed its anti-Rauner resolution yesterday…
Speaking to reporters after Rauner left, Emanuel said he would carry his and the city’s opposition to the governor’s local right-to-work-zone legislation all the way to the Capitol. Workers in the zones would be able to choose not to join unions or pay related dues in workplaces that have been organized, limiting union money and influence.
“I don’t believe in right to work, have not my whole life. I think you’re pulling the rug out from underneath the middle class and people trying to get in the middle class,” said Emanuel, who added, “If the governor can figure out a way to work with people down in Springfield to do that, I’m going to fight that effort.” […]
Ald. Roderick Sawyer, 6th, said he understood the need to work together with Rauner, but not on the right-to-work-zone issue.
“It’s not going to work. He’s not going to get any traction on cutting out unions,” said Sawyer, who added, “To even think about cutting out unions or giving an option of there being a union or not, that’s not going to fly in the city of Chicago. I don’t think it will fly downstate, either.”
- walker - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 9:59 am:
Having these discussions are probably worthwhile, provided they are fully debated.
- Norseman - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 10:06 am:
Rauner Resolution War Room may have been scaled back but they’re still working. Doing their best to convince tiny villages with gullible elected officials that the resolution means something.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 10:08 am:
“Hi, ‘ck’-,
Your boss spoke to the Chicago City Council, then they dinged him. Pretty deflating. You could’ve mentioned that.
Thanks!
ow”
This Right to Work is quite frankly the most embarrassing way a governor can continue to make himself look like a Dope… with paid Staff’s help.
You are hurting you boss and his agenda.
Keep up the good work. lol
- Anonymous - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 10:10 am:
This isn’t even fun to make fun of anymore.
- Demoralized - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 10:17 am:
This is just pathetic now. The fact that the Governor’s office still doesn’t recognize that they are making themselves look asinine with this process is scary.
- How Ironic - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 10:18 am:
It appears Rauner is striving for an anti-Sally Fields moment:
“You all hate me…you really all hate me!”
- 47th Ward - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 10:24 am:
Chebanse. Wow. Is Irwin next?
- GA Watcher - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 10:33 am:
Was at the Governor’s speech to Chicago’s City Council yesterday. He told them it’s okay if they don’t support all that’s in his turnaround agenda. He also expressed the hope that they could agree with him at least on pension reform, unfunded mandates and local control, particularly with regard to gaming.
- Mama - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 10:35 am:
Is it all about RTW or is there a hidden agenda?
- D.P.Gumby - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 10:38 am:
Are the votes in from Cobden or Dallas City?
- Skeptic - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 10:55 am:
GA Watcher: If that doesn’t sound like backpedalling (”It’s this, take it or leave it”) I’m not sure what is.
- Big Joe - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 11:07 am:
Whether they agree or not with him on pension reform is meaningless if the ILSC rules that the pension changes are unconstitutional. And who knows when that decision is coming?
- MrJM - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 11:16 am:
I’ve sung in front of crowds larger than Chebanse.
#HumbleBrag
– MrJM
- Precinct Captain - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 11:57 am:
==- Demoralized - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 10:17 am:==
I couldn’t agree more Demoralized. Save for the geography lessons and Oswego Willy’s messages to Catherine Kelly, this exercise is getting more and more worthless.
- ryan - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 12:45 pm:
@47th - Irwin is right after Stelle.
- VanillaMan - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 1:26 pm:
So, can we see that the Governor’s success is dependent upon how many citizens within a community eat pizza at a filling station? Does the Governor have a team out there counting up the number of Casey’s or Warnaco convenience stores serve as their downtown?
- VanillaMan - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 1:27 pm:
Keep the RTW paperwork - kill this campaign with fire. Everyday this administration loses its argument is another day it loses any credibility at all.
- 47th Ward - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 2:03 pm:
===Stelle===
Well done ryan! Except isn’t Stelle a collective community? I’m not sure Rauner would approve.
- Rich Miller - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 2:06 pm:
===isn’t Stelle a collective community?===
Haven’t been there in a long time, but I remember when those end of day types moved in. Seemed like nice people.
- BlameBruceRauner - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 2:13 pm:
I agree its time to stop covering this. It shows how stubborn they are. After a few of the Big Fish punted the RTW resolution, the govs crack team of college grad should have steered him into a new direction, not necessarily abandoning the idea but focusing it and generating more support. By having all these entities vote on it, he has effectively woke the sleeping Union beast that will inevitably bite him in the rear throughout this 4 years of grandstanding for the .1%.
- Rich Miller - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 2:14 pm:
===I agree its time to stop covering this===
Veto. Can’t be overridden.
- Anon221 - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 2:50 pm:
I very much doubt Stelle would vote for the Turnaround:) And they are nice people!
http://www.stellecommunity.com/
- Demoralized - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 3:00 pm:
A guy:
Call again. They didn’t get your message yesterday.
- 47th Ward - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 3:20 pm:
===those end of day types===
I don’t remember that angle. My high school class visited Stelle once and got a tour. My strongest memory was stuff like they didn’t have phones or televisions. After I heard that, I kind of stopped listening. I mean, why bother?
But yes, nice people. I figured they were a bunch of misguided hippies, minus all of the drugs and rock and roll.
- Rich Miller - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 3:24 pm:
===don’t remember that angle===
They chose that area because of safety from earthquakes.
We used to occasionally ride through blaring WLS/WCFL on the car radio for all the deprived kids. lol
- Anon221 - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 3:28 pm:
47th- What is your definition of “misguided”?
- 47th Ward - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 3:32 pm:
===47th- What is your definition of “misguided”===
The no drugs/rock-n-roll part of being a hippie.
- Adam Smith - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 3:56 pm:
Lauzen has grown considerably??
Sorry, Rich. Lauzen is still the charmer he was in Springfield. The only difference is, between the Democrats and Anti-Lauzen Republicans on his board, he has been forced to back away from his ham-fisted, my-way-or-the-highway approach.
If you look at his record over the past couple of years, he’s been embroiled in patronage controversies, browbeatten board members in public, hired a PR flack and other senior staff he railed against before, and engaged in his usual theatrics.
He’s being practical not because he’s practical, but because he has no choice.
- ryan - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 4:29 pm:
The stories surrounding the original group were interesting to say the least. I read one of the books from the founder. The dude was way out there. We would raise some hell there in my high school days. Nice people there now.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 7, 15 @ 9:59 pm:
Why why why?
No recall. Elections have consequences. Get over it.