Your collective bargaining rights - wages, benefits and voice are under attack!

 
   
August 4, 2015

As a member of the Illinois Federation of Public Employees (IFPE) Local 4408, your collective bargaining rights – wages, benefits, and voice – are under unprecedented attack.

Governor Rauner and his “negotiators” are relentless in their extreme demands for public worker takeaways. Regardless of his public rhetoric, it's evident that Rauner wants to force a government shutdown and worker strike. Look no further than his political speeches and his effort to recruit retirees to do your work during a strike. 

The Governor recently vetoed Senate Bill 1229 – union-supported legislation that would give public employees the option to choose common-sense binding arbitration over Governor Rauner's political attempts of a lockout or a strike. 

Lawmakers can vote to override the Governor's politically driven veto, but they must hear from you!  

It's critical that today you take the simple action of emailing a bipartisan group of lawmakers who can vote to override SB1229 to ensure a fair contract, a continuation of public services, and sanity in the decades-old contract process. 

Click here to email legislators today.

More about SB 1229:

  • Provides an option for public employees in state agencies to choose binding arbitration as a solution to difficult contract negotiations. Unions would not be required to use it.
  • Only impacts state agency contracts through 2019
  • Parties will still try to negotiate a settlement, but after 30 days of mediation and one side initiating impasse arbitration, an arbitration panel would be selected. Once the arbitration hearings begin, the right to strike would be waived and a lockout would be prohibited. 

Take Action Right Now.

Our families don't deserve to be collateral damage because Governor Rauner wants to force a strike. Illinoisans who rely on your work don't want public services to stop because of one man's ideological obsession. 

Tell lawmakers to put a stop to Governor Rauner's agenda. Tell them to override his veto of SB1229.

It takes just a few seconds to make your voice heard. Click here to send an email now.

 

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