Wirepoints has a new OpEd in the Wall Street Journal detailing the potential impact of Amendment 1.
A November ballot measure, which its proponents style the Workers’ Rights Amendment, would make Illinois the nation’s extreme outlier when it comes to giving government unions power over taxpayers. If Illinoisans are fooled into voting for Amendment 1, they can kiss parents’ rights, lower taxes and any chance of a state turnaround goodbye.
Click here to read Wirepoints’ OpEd in the WSJ.
Read more from Wirepoints on Amendment 1:
- Wirepoints’ Amendment 1: Impact on Illinoisans page
- All you need to know about Amendment 1 in under 5 minutes
- Illinois Constitutional Amendment 1 Would Erase Essential and Widely Accepted Exceptions to Public Worker Unionization Rights
- The Wall Street Journal Calls Out The Whopping Lie Behind The Pending Constitutional Amendment Illinois Is Ignoring
- Illinois lawmakers want to cement vastly expanded union powers into the state constitution
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
If this passes, and likely even if it doesn’t, eventually there will only be public sector union employees left. Who will fund their wages, benefits and pensions then? At least, there will be no more need for public school teachers once everybody else leaves the state!
Wrong! This is for all government pensions in IL. Not only the teachers unions. Their pensions are guaranteed to be funded in the IL constitution thanks to the crooked politicians who passed an amendment in the 1970’s which guarantees they are paid first. All other state services would come later. That said, any service other than unions would be paid last!
Indiana, Texas and Florida are just licking their chops, hoping this passes. Would not be surprised to see them funding the “Yes on 1” ads.
Except for the Cops and Firefighters most public sector union members are the scum of the economy. Like parasitic leeches these brainless vermin spend a lifetime taking, stealing, consuming the work of others. They spend a lifetime of theft. Bust all Unions now. Fire AFSCME, CTU, IFT and SEIU now.
just 2 years ago the rallying cry by progressive/ blm types was–“silence is violence” with regard to human rights, equity & equality. But now pretty much everyone, even dem machine pols when pressed, admits rights guaranteed in Amendment 1 apply to GOVERNMENT WORKERS ONLY, and is the complete opposite of any metric of equality, equity or any progressive supposed ideals? and yet the press is silent on communicating this basic fact to the nieve dullard voter that will constitutionally condemn us non public sec Illinoisans (93%) as 2nd class citizens? If passed can any one those who where in a… Read more »
Love the OpEd in the Wall Street Journal. Thank you to Wirepoints. Taxpayers are being raped in Illinois.
The most deplorable, useless miserable people I’ve ever met have been public sector employees. Fat, lazy, worthless human garbage that somehow finds each other and group up to pillage the working class. Think school administration, city hall mopes, building dept slugs, you get the picture if your here on this site you know exactly who I’m talking about. Amendment 1 takes the least capable among us and makes them king.
Your corporate masters have fooled you. Firefighting, policing, teaching, snow removal are all essential services that benefit the entire state. If you support the backbone of America you should support Amendment 1. Vote yes 4 workers rights. Vote yes for safe working conditions and fair pay.
Vote Yes, The public unions are destroying the private sector and the middle class and will take down the whole state. Your demands are way too high and your performance too low. You need to study Detroit because it’s happening here. Yoda’s solution to a decaying Loop is cabrini green. One of the greatest business districts in the world and the best they could come up with is public housing !!! That sounds like a Yes vote to me. The worst part is the majority of your members know this and the Union Leadership keeps marching toward the cliff. Like… Read more »
Vote Yes – even in the absence of a union , public sector workers have civil service protections unknown to private sector workers. This is of course one reason why politicians such as FDR did not like public sector unions. It is much easier and lazier to proclaim the evil of corporate masters, however.
this only helps cement the unions capability to bargain for higher pay and benefits AND without limits!! they already have bargaining power. This just states that nobody can disagree or reverse their decisions. WAY TOO MUCH POWER TO THE UNIONS. This will raise taxes for the taxpayers who already pay through the nose! let government cut back on waste!! Wake up America! VOTE NO!!!
Don’t forget the motor vehicle office….
There is a difference between public unions and private sector unions. “Private Sector” means you are not an employee of the state. Amendment 1 ONLY ADVOCATES for Government Union employees. Amendment 1 supporters are deceiving all of us to get us to vote for this Constitutional Amendment that will live on forever if it passes, just like pension laws do. Ask an Amendment 1 supporter how this new addition to the Constitution will affect your private sector Union. If they tell you that you are included too, they are lying to your face.
Vote 4 workers rights. Voting yes on Amendment 1 will prevent the state from passing any right to work for less laws. The workers rights amendment ensures workers can speak out about dangerous situations that put ALL Illinoisans at risk without fear of retaliation from their employer. This amendment strengthens our communities by protecting first responders like nurses, firefighters, and EMT’s. Protect the people that put their lives on the lines for all taxpayers.
Vote yes for Amendment 1. Vote yes for safe work environments and fair pay for workers.
The state doesn’t pass right to work laws, We the People pass right to work laws! Amendment 1 threatens democracy by denying We the People a say in our fundamental human rights to control runway union parasitism
You should try responding to the specific criticisms of Amendment 1 made in the article and in other commentary, instead of just the vague pieties so often repeated by the amendment’s supporters. By the way, worker safety is already regulated in enormous detail by OSHA for the private sector. State and local workers are protected by a detailed OSHA-approved plan. Trying to override it with a two-sentence constitutional right, which you claim Amendment 1 will do, is insane. And nobody is trying to take away the right to negotiate for fair wages. Even Rauner’s effort, and other right to work… Read more »
Wild/ crazy Amendment 1 idea #9,999— an opportunistic politician, state or local, could have the cojones to call Amendment 1 for what it is–FOR PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES ONLY, and simply campaign on a platform, that if elected, they would push for passing referendum that all their voting constitutes will be instantly hired as Illinois gov employees, state of local, for $1 dollar a year and then formed into a public sec union (call it Taxpayers Chumbalone Union or something) with the ability to collectively bargain over whatever they want. Tax rebates, pay, benefits, etc…the possibilities are endless. How could the… Read more »
Support a strong middle class. Support safe working conditions and fair pay. Vote 4 workers rights. Vote yes on amendment 1.
And what happens if Amendment 1 passes? What if more Illinois residents leave because Amendment 1 passes? I realize all of us can be taxed into bankruptcy so YOU get your pension. Does that make YOU feel good and far superior to the rest of us because YOU have the power to destroy us? But when there’s no one here to tax because we got fed up with your BS and left Illinois, who will pay your pension?
Don’t believe the lies that your corporate masters feed you. The state won’t collapse because workers want safe working conditions. Amendment 1 provides rights for workers. The right to negotiate for a safe work environment and fair wages. A healthy middle class only makes the state stronger.
Vote yes 4 workers rights. VOTE YES ON AMENDMENT 1
Just exactly what is a fair wage $40, $60, $80 an hour plus huge medical benefits and pensions? Most of us are not buying “safe working conditions, and threat of a collapsing state”. That’s not what this is about. If it’s about safety why aren’t you worried about the private sector and not just youself? This is about huge hourly rates and pensions. We’re not stupid. And there won’t be a healthy middle class, most of us won’t be able to live as well as you do. Corporate masters my rear end, I can think for myself.
Instead of putting in your “-1” how about you answer the questions I asked? Aren’t you able to or won’t they let you?
Again I ask what is a fair wage that will be added to $’s from your pension and your medical? Give me a job and give me an example of a fair wage including benefits.
Each job is different and different wages will be paid for different jobs. Fair wages can only be determined through fair negotiations. Amendment 1 guarantees that workers have the right to negotiate a fair contract with fair wages and safe working conditions.
Vote YES for Amendment 1. Vote YES 4 workers. Vote YES to limit the power of corporate masters.
How much will those fair working conditions cost and will they be fair or above fair ?
Fair, if both sides agree to it. Don’t be afraid to give workers a voice.
Vote YES for Amendment 1. Vote YES 4 workers.
We are going to have to agree to disagree, we’re not getting anywhere. I’m out.
Vote no to limit corporate powers, since the bureaucrats in this state who want this are in league with the worst corporate powers who are beholden to the globalist powers who are in league with the one world technocracy destroying innovation & American sovereignty through debt peonage & currency debasement. It’s hard to wrap your mind around this without a baseline capacity for moral discernment and the ability to read new things and objectify yourself away from your own “Me First!” approach to problem solving. Just stop buying from and working for failing large corporations raiding our children’s treasure with… Read more »
Excellent article Ted and John. The article is behind a paywall, but here is a link that gives access to the article. Unions Ask Illinois Voters to Sign Over Control of the State – WSJ (archive.ph)
Congrats!! Fantastic job emphasizing the great con job that is Amendment 1 which has nothing to do with –equity, equality, fairness, democracy or a republic. Just plain old rewarding the few at the expense of the many while bizarrely being peddled to a lib-tard public as some kind of fight for the working every man by fake progressive dems. I struggle to find a term to describe Illinois government–Oligarchy?,Kleptocracy?, Aristocracy?… Certainly not a Democracy or Republic. SUGGESTIONS PLEASE!!
Turn over the state? What could possibly go wrong with that? Only I didn’t know there was a small corner of Illinois that the unions don’t ALREADY control.
Yes! Great work Wirepoints!
More crazy abuse of non-public union taxpayers, by our corrupt and incompetent politcians, for them to curry even more favor with their public unions. “This will not stand.”
In the Saturday edition, no less. Stays linked on the Opinion page throughout the weekend since “Saturday” is really the “Sunday” edition of the WSJ.
That’s good work. Literally thousands of other folks were likely trying to get something published in the WSJ today.