Feb. 9, AFSCME Council
31 Executive Director Roberta Lynch released the following statement in response
to Gov. Bruce Rauner’s executive order forbidding state agencies from collecting
fair-share payments from state employees:
“Child protection
workers, caregivers for veterans and the disabled, correctional officers and
everyone else employed by state government has a right to a voice at work and in
the democratic process through their union.
“Bruce Rauner’s scheme
to strip the rights of state workers and weaken their unions by executive order
is a blatantly illegal abuse of power.
“Perhaps as a private
equity CEO Rauner was accustomed to ignoring legal and ethical standards, but
Illinois is still a democracy and its laws have meaning.
“It is crystal clear by
this action that the governor’s supposed concern for balancing the state budget
is a paper-thin excuse that can’t hide his real agenda: Silencing working people
and their unions who stand up for the middle class.
“Our union and all
organized labor will stand together with those who believe in democracy to
overturn Bruce Rauner’s illegal action and restore the integrity of the rule of
law.”
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