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By Benjamin Cox on May 7, 2021 at 9:52am
Hundreds of state workers who lost union representation under former Governor Bruce Rauner may soon get it back.
Senate Bill 525 says that decisions on whether public-sector workers should be classified as supervisory and thus not eligible for union protections should be based on actual job duties and not solely on written job descriptions passed last Thursday 44-11.
All 11 no votes came from Republicans including 55th District State Senator Darren Bailey, who is running for governor, and Quincy’s 47th District Republican State Senator Jil Tracy. Voting in favor of the bill included Democratic 48th District State Senator Doris Turner of Springfield and six Republican senators, including 50th District State Senator Steve McClure of Springfield.
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Hundreds of state workers who lost union representation during the administration of former Gov. Bruce Rauner could get it back under a bill approved by the Illinois Senate this week and now pending in the House.
Decisions on whether public-sector workers should be classified as supervisory and thus not eligible for union protections should be based “on actual employee job duties and not solely on written job descriptions,” according to Senate Bill 525.
Sponsored by state Sen. Omar Aquino, D-Chicago, the bill passed by a vote of 44 to 11 on Thursday, with all the “no” votes coming from Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Dan McConchie of Hawthorn Woods, Norine Hammond of Macomb, Jill Tracy of Quincy and Jason Barickman of Bloomington.
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SEIU Graduate Workers Union in stalled talks at Illinois State University March 1, 2021 10:51 AM CDT By Zach Carlson
Graduate Worker Union members with Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who empathized with the workers, saying that his daughter was a grad worker in Connecticut and “got paid peanuts” as well, September 2018. | SEIU
NORMAL, Ill. In October 2018, Illinois State University’s more than 400 graduate workers voted to officially unionize and be represented as SEIU Local 73. The long months of meetings, difficult one-on-one conversations, procedural documents, and learning the process of organizing a workplace paid off for the graduate workers involved.