* Press release…
Governor Bruce Rauner today vetoed Senate Bill 19 due to an agreement between the Department of Corrections and the Illinois Nurses Association. As a result of good faith negotiations, both sides reached an agreement on an alternative to subcontracting that was fair to taxpayers and state employees.
Governor Rauner wrote in his veto message:
“Since the passage of Senate Bill 19 by the General Assembly, our Administration has negotiated a new contract with the Illinois Nurses Association and addressed these concerns. The agreement allows the Department to achieve the necessary fiscal and operational objectives without resorting to contracting with outside vendors. The agreement represents what is possible when all parties work together.”
The governor was getting a lot of heat from Republican legislators to settle this matter with the prison nurse.
The full veto message is here.
*** UPDATE *** Press release…
Senator Andy Manar, a Bunker Hill Democrat and supporter of collective bargaining rights, reacted this afternoon to word that Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed a measure that would have protected the jobs of unionized state prison nurses:
“Gov. Rauner went back to the table to with these nurses and renegotiated their contract because of pressure from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Had it not been for that, he would have embraced this as yet another opportunity to thumb his nose at unions and working families,” Manar said.
“Since it was so easy for him to return to the table and reopen negotiations with the prison nurses, perhaps he can find it within himself to return to the table with AFSCME and do the same. As Gov. Rauner acknowledged in his veto message, an agreement is indeed possible when all parties work together.”
- Mav - Friday, Jun 2, 17 @ 3:23 pm:
Again, House Republicans stand up to Rauner. When will House Democrats stand up to Madigan?
Both sides need to show they can stand up to leaders. House R’s have proven it a handful of times during this impasse. House D’s have not.
- downstate commissioner - Friday, Jun 2, 17 @ 3:30 pm:
Except that most of Madigan’s positions are core Democratic Party positions, not those of one man forcing the Raunercrat party’s beliefs onto Republicans.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jun 2, 17 @ 3:31 pm:
===Again, House Republicans stand up to Rauner. When will House Democrats stand up to Madigan?===
Again… Explain the roll calls for SSM and Conceal Carry.
Saying things over and over doesn’t make them less wrong…
- Steve - Friday, Jun 2, 17 @ 3:34 pm:
==The governor was getting a lot of heat from Republican legislators to settle this matter with the prison nurse==
There are Republican legislators in Illinois that are actually willing to stand up for union state employees in their districts? I hope nobody told Avery Bourne, Tim Butler and Sara Jimenez about this, the Gov might have to spend his entire weekend rebooting the internal hard drives of these three.
- Robert the 1st - Friday, Jun 2, 17 @ 3:35 pm:
OW- didn’t Madigan usher through the Conceal Carry bill? How is that Dems standing up to him?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jun 2, 17 @ 3:40 pm:
===didn’t Madigan usher through the Conceal Carry bill? How is that Dems standing up to him?===
Did ALL Dems vote for Conceal Carry?
We’re Dems threatened unless the WHOLE Caucus voted for Conceal Carry.
Madigan helped find and cobble 60.
- Mav - Friday, Jun 2, 17 @ 3:56 pm:
Oswego willy: How are those examples of House Democrats standing up to Madigan? Those both were under Quinn, not during the impasse. And neither was standing up against Madigan at all. Name me any time during the Rauner time that House Democrats stood up to Madigan and voted against his stance?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jun 2, 17 @ 4:05 pm:
===How are those examples of House Democrats standing up to Madigan?===
They told Madigan they couldn’t vote for one or both bills, Madigan helped find 60 elsewhere… How is that difficult to understand.
If Madigan made EVERYONE vote for it, you’d have an argument.
It’s well-known, it’s given to Lore based on Truth;
Two votes… Speaker, the rules… Those are thriving votes Madigan expects, and it’s happened that not all Dems voted for the rules… or Drury with both.
===Those both were under Quinn, not during the impasse.===
We’re talking about Madigan, not Quinn… Where did Madigan peel off votes… Like Rauner did in the Senate, as Leader Radogno, Rauner’s Leader said.
You don’t even know what’ve you mean, lol
===Name me any time during the Rauner time that House Democrats stood up to Madigan and voted against his stance===
Every time that a vote wasn’t “perfect” in Dem roll calls?
What else you got? LOL
- Nick Name - Friday, Jun 2, 17 @ 4:07 pm:
“When will House Democrats stand up to Madigan?”
Earlier this week, when Madigan had to drop SB 6 for lack of enough votes.