Ted was on with Dan and Amy to discuss the contradictions surrounding the “Workers Rights Amendment,” on the ballot for voters to decide this November.
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- Amendment 1: Learn about the amendment
- Amendment 1: Wirepoints Original Stories
- Amendment 1: Stories from other sources
- Amendment 1 has two objectives: To give massive new powers to government unions and to stop Illinois’ private sector from going Right to Work – Sp. Presentation
- Wall Street Journal Calls Out The Whopping Lie Behind The Pending Constitutional Amendment Illinois Is Ignoring
- Illinois’ biggest fraud on its voters yet is coming in its official description of proposed constitutional amendment
- Are Workers’ Rights Amendment Supporters Lying In Their Ad, Did They Lie To Legislators Or Lie To The Court?
- Scope Of Pending Illinois Constitutional Amendment Goes Far Beyond Appearances. It’s A Monstrous Giveaway To Public Unions.
- Illinois lawmakers want to cement union powers into the state constitution
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Try to remember everything the democrats have done to complicate your life. Make a list, you may need multiple legal pads. Memorize the list and think about it on November 8! Never vote for a democrat or anyone who looks like a democrat.
Sound advice. Unfortunately deafness of woke democrats will ignore it.
Illinois is so screwed up.
Where on the list of problems in Illinois does the lack of labor union power rank?
# 10,083.
Who is making this list? To the unions making massive contributions to IL’s Democrat politicians, it’s problem #1.
That is the only reason the amendment is on the ballot. Same old story. Labor unions provide campaign contributions, GOTV, endorsements, etc. to politicians. Politicians provide legislation desired by labor unions. So it is not a Workers Rights Amendment. It is a Labor Union Amendment. In fact the latter half of the proposed amendment is anti workers rights, in that it takes what is a state law (prohibits private sector workers from opting out of the union aka Right to Work without being forced to join the union) and adds it to the state constitution. And the first half of… Read more »
Yes, the state is making its own hell. But they like it that way, even if it drives away residents and businesses.
Pretty much.
The politicians in power care about winning the current election, and perhaps some forward looking medium planning for future elections.
Obviously no long term fiscal planning for whatever governmental union they purportedly represent.
Plenty of excuses, rationalizations, slight of hand, deflections, and such.
Preaching to the choir.
They’ve driven enough conservative votes out of state during this Great Sorting and now they’re just here to loot the treasury.
Correction and clarification to the above comment that begins with, “Pretty much.”
“Obviously no long term fiscal planning for whatever governmental UNIT they (THE POLITICIANS) purportedly represent.”