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The bill now under consideration in the Illinois House of Representatives would allow workers to begin receiving unemployment benefits after two weeks on the picket line. Currently, striking workers are ineligible to receive unemployment benefits.
Audio and summary linked here.
A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
Summary and audio linked here.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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Democrats will pay anything to secure the union vote.
They chose to strike. They could have stayed at the bargaining table and resolved their differences. No employer paid unemployment for them. This state & its unions will not be happy until it bankrupts every resident and business. Can’t wait to leave.
As long as the union exclusively pays into IDES and gets tagged with the expensive experience factor and has union funds confiscated to pay for it, fine.
If the burden is placed on any employer? Nope. IDES is paid mostly by non-union businesses, and this would be an illegal Takings from non-union businesses to subsidize willful dereliction of duty by striking employees (Kids, that’s what a strike actually is).
Illinois elects its dumbest. Every time.
another day, another business-unfriendly Illinois bill
If there’s any burden that can be placed on employers, they will find it.
And on the same page I read “John Deere Quietly Choosing Indiana and North Carolina Over Illinois”