Bruce Rauner – who actually represents taxpayers’ interests – from labor contract negotiations. Now the union is working overtime to remove Gov. That’s how AFSCME workers have become some the highest-compensated state workers in the nation. Illinois’ former governors cared more about appeasing the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees than protecting the taxpayers the governors were supposed to represent. This is a guest post from Ted Dabrowski at the Illinois Policy Institute, of which I am a senior fellow.įor years, Illinois taxpayers haven’t been represented at the bargaining table between Illinois’ largest government union and the state. Yet, despite the fact that Illinois is for all practical purposes insolvent, the AFSCME union demands four-year raises ranging from 11.5 to 29 percent, overtime after 37.5 hours of work per week, five weeks of vacation and enhanced health care coverage.
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