‘Cash bar available’ — if you’re a member of Mark’s collective bargaining unit, he’ll buy you a drink with all the money he saved freeloading off your dues.
Topic of talk: How to Sell Out Your Co-Workers for Fame and Fortune.
- Original Rambler - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:53 am:
Wonder if Roskam was aware that Janus would be the keynote before agreeing to this. Not sure how being associated with Janus helps him in his reelection effort since Janus stokes union households.
Do yo think they would have a problem with me showing up for the dinner and not paying?
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:09 am:
Worth noting that in 2017 the Elgin Township GOP managed to get swept from control of the township board by the Dems for the first time in over a century. This crew is historically inept.
Hey there is a Bennigan’s attached to that Hotel, not many of them left. I love the Monte Cristo !
- Grandson of Man - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:29 am:
** modern day “David versus Goliath” story **
Poor Janus and his super-wealthy funders and supporters, the Davids of America. Janus suffered so much at the hands of AFSCME, with all those rights and job protections, secure pay and benefits.
I wonder which version of his story he’s going to tell:
1) I can negotiate my own pay and benefits and get a better result?
2) I love(d) my job so much I had to destroy it and leave it to save it.
3) My message that Rich people don’t have enough money so middle class workers should continue to give up pay and benefits to increase returns for high-dollar types is “winning”.
Robert Siljestrom will also be there. He is a real catch.
Roskam’s race won’t turn out to be close. He will handely but seems to be taking the race very seriously as to not be knocked out like other GOP people. Roskam should be there.
“CapFax Commenters still don’t understand the basic free speech and freedom of association issues in my case despite an official decision from the final arbiter of Constitutional law in the US!”
Actually Phil, I do understand the decision and I also understand that it is an opinion untethered from the law. There are many things the government force me to pay for even though I disagree with them. Trumps wall is but one example. Abboud struck the right balance.
- Albany Park Patriot - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 4:05 pm:
“I was a pawn in the corporate effort to kill unions and all I got was this lousy sweater.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:28 am:
“Greetings from IPI-Land”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:29 am:
“It’s spelled ‘Janus’, with a ‘u-s’… “
- PublicServant - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:30 am:
All Salutes must use more than one finger - Strictly enforced.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:30 am:
“I sued to make my state job better… so I quit”
- Perrid - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:32 am:
@PublicServant, *holds up 3 middle fingers*
“Read between the lines”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:32 am:
“I’m in a cubicle right now, but once Bruce comes to work for IPI too we’re getting a new office space… “
- LakeviewJ - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:34 am:
“In this evening’s presentation, the part of Goliath will be played by Richard Uihlein and be victorious.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:35 am:
“Don’t tell anyone, but I voted for Jeanne Ives”
- Fake Janus
- Generic Drone - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:35 am:
Dont think this will go over very well. Likely to get booed off stage.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:37 am:
“I still don’t know how fair share actually worked, so don’t ask”
- Lester Holt’s Mustache - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:38 am:
*$45 per person, $80 per couple fair share fee is required to attend
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:38 am:
“The only patsy I know… is Patsy Cline, k?”
- Young Dinosaur - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:40 am:
Wait, no option for the benefit of hearing Janus speak without paying a fee?
- Quizzical - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:41 am:
‘Cash bar available’ — if you’re a member of Mark’s collective bargaining unit, he’ll buy you a drink with all the money he saved freeloading off your dues.
- DuPage Saint - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:42 am:
And Peter J Roskam? Should be fun
- don the legend - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:43 am:
“My previous job was a Union pilot for US Airways. Flight 1549 was my last job.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:44 am:
“… and I’m also the go-between for Mr. Tillman and Bruce… so they don’t have to talk to each other no more.”
- Honeybear - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:44 am:
Meet the man
Who through unintentional consequences
United All Labor
Like never before.
Enjoy a heaping helping of Irony
Mark Janus, Labor Invigorator
- Henry Francis - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:45 am:
Holiday Inn on Airport road in Elgin?
Is Murph and the Magic Tones the opening act?
- Jocko - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:46 am:
==his modern day “David versus Goliath” story.==
If David had a wealthy benefactor supplying weapons and didn’t have a clear idea why he was fighting Goliath.
- siualum - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:48 am:
Topic of talk: How to Sell Out Your Co-Workers for Fame and Fortune.
- Original Rambler - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:53 am:
Wonder if Roskam was aware that Janus would be the keynote before agreeing to this. Not sure how being associated with Janus helps him in his reelection effort since Janus stokes union households.
- wordslinger - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:54 am:
–David vs. Goliath story–
So he’s King David? A wee bit full of ourselves, perhaps, for being the useful idiot to achieve standing in a lawsuit?
The better comparison, of course, is Janus the two-face in Roman mythology.
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 9:59 am:
Honeybear, Mark your calendar.
- A State Employee Guy - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:00 am:
So Ann-us, then? Womp, womp.
- Anon - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:00 am:
$45 per person, $80 per couple, but if you don’t agree with the keynote speaker you don’t have to pay and can eat and drink all you want for free.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:06 am:
“I told Bruce, ‘they call it the Janus ruling, get your own legacy’….”
- 13thone - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:06 am:
Do yo think they would have a problem with me showing up for the dinner and not paying?
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:09 am:
Worth noting that in 2017 the Elgin Township GOP managed to get swept from control of the township board by the Dems for the first time in over a century. This crew is historically inept.
- Frank talks - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:09 am:
I wonder what other GOP folks show up besides Peter?
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:20 am:
Come meet the victor in Janus v. AFSCME and hear his ‘Judas v. Goliath’ story.
- Al - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:21 am:
He did not quit; he applied with SERS to collect his retirement annuity.
- paddyrollingstone - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:23 am:
To paraphrase the legendary Lionel Hutz:
Lionel Hutz: Mr. Janus, I don’t use the word ‘hero’ lightly, but you are the greatest hero in American history.
Homer Janus: Woohoo!
- Generic Drone - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:24 am:
Janus eats for free. I guess he gets another free ride. Why don’t this guy pay for anything?
- Texas Red - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:27 am:
Hey there is a Bennigan’s attached to that Hotel, not many of them left. I love the Monte Cristo !
- Grandson of Man - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:29 am:
** modern day “David versus Goliath” story **
Poor Janus and his super-wealthy funders and supporters, the Davids of America. Janus suffered so much at the hands of AFSCME, with all those rights and job protections, secure pay and benefits.
- ChicagoJ - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:31 am:
Y’all are having too much fun in this thread
- SaulGoodman - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:42 am:
**David and Goliath**
When a group of organized middle class workers tried to take on the very, very well funded pro-business, anti-union special interests.
- a drop in - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:42 am:
“$45 per person, $80 per couple”
I don’t agree with the dessert; how much without it?
- Ole' Nelson - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:55 am:
I choose to enjoy the delicious meal and listen to the speakers, but I am going to pass on the paying for it part.
- Rutro - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 10:57 am:
Ahahhaha, they don’t really think people are going to pay to go to this.
- Leigh John-Ella - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 11:00 am:
Social hour with Mark Janus.
Hoo boy
- wordslinger - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 11:01 am:
–Hey there is a Bennigan’s attached to that Hotel, not many of them left.–
Good reasons for that. The magic of the marketplace.
No wonder you love Rauner’s flair. You’re the dude from Tchotchkes.
- Deadbeat Conservative - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 11:18 am:
I wonder which version of his story he’s going to tell:
1) I can negotiate my own pay and benefits and get a better result?
2) I love(d) my job so much I had to destroy it and leave it to save it.
3) My message that Rich people don’t have enough money so middle class workers should continue to give up pay and benefits to increase returns for high-dollar types is “winning”.
- k3_spfld_chi - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 11:28 am:
Robert Siljestrom will also be there. He is a real catch.
Roskam’s race won’t turn out to be close. He will handely but seems to be taking the race very seriously as to not be knocked out like other GOP people. Roskam should be there.
- Texas Red - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 11:38 am:
“$45 per person”
Well those ‘Fair Share” fees were $47 each month to the union. So in a way this is free!
- Sue - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 12:27 pm:
Hey OW- don’t think you have yet to make your feelings clear
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 12:39 pm:
With the way Janus screwed-over his colleagues, his seems much more like a modern day “David vs. Uriah the Hittite” story.
– MrJM
- City Zen - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 12:41 pm:
==Do yo think they would have a problem with me showing up for the dinner and not paying?==
Depends. Are they the only place to eat dinner?
- Rabid - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 1:12 pm:
okely dokely
- Rabid - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 1:14 pm:
Hero sandwiches only ingredient baloney
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 1:17 pm:
“Limited Seating to Paying Ticketholders Only. No Ticket Limit.”
- Phil King - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 1:19 pm:
“CapFax Commenters still don’t understand the basic free speech and freedom of association issues in my case despite an official decision from the final arbiter of Constitutional law in the US!”
-Fake Janus
- Rabid - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 1:21 pm:
I throw stones
- Rabid - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 1:37 pm:
Free IPI tie tac
- Rabid - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 1:41 pm:
IPI freedom fighter
- Rabid - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 1:43 pm:
Free rides, call ahead
- Rabid - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 1:44 pm:
Children pay full price
- Amalia - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 1:44 pm:
Action, there will be action.
- Rabid - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 2:10 pm:
Gee davey
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 2:11 pm:
I wonder if somebody is going to give Janus’s speech for him, too.
- Stumpy's bunker - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 3:00 pm:
Move over, Mother Jones, IPI’s “Workers Rights Advocate” will clarify what you’ve said.
(high-impact facepalm)
- Stumpy's bunker - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 3:05 pm:
He was never a David.
He just wanted to consort with the Goliaths.
- Rabid - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 3:16 pm:
I had to quit my job because they were paying for abortion
- Stumpy's bunker - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 3:20 pm:
i.e., the real Goliaths
- TominChicago - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 4:00 pm:
Actually Phil, I do understand the decision and I also understand that it is an opinion untethered from the law. There are many things the government force me to pay for even though I disagree with them. Trumps wall is but one example. Abboud struck the right balance.
- Albany Park Patriot - Friday, Aug 24, 18 @ 4:05 pm:
“I was a pawn in the corporate effort to kill unions and all I got was this lousy sweater.”