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AFSCME points to “state contractors providing public services” that “may spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on union busting consultants and lawyers, rather that on providing services to the public.” And, there’s an “excessive backlog at the state labor board,” so public employees “have difficulty freely choosing to form a union.”

The questions:

Would you support legislation that would remove barriers that public workers confront when they seek to form a union?

Would you support efforts to deter contractors that receive funds from the state of Illinois from engaging in activities that seek to prevent their employees from exercising their right to form a union?

Go figure. The Democrats have been in control of all three branches of state government for three years and they haven’t passed every piece of legislation that the unions want?
And, isn’t that second question a modification of the Service Employees International Union question about state subsidized enterprises (meaning, in hospitals and nursing homes to the SEIU) paying for people to fight unionization?

The final question (on page 6) is about gasoline reimbursements:

Would you support legislation that would give state employees the same mileage that is provided to legislators?

Members of the General Assembly receive whatever IRS allows whenever it changes. State government waits until the next July 1st, the AFSFME says.

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