Courtesy of Mish.
Congratulations to the village board of Lincolnshire, Illinois for having the courage to stand up to union bullies by passing right-to work legislation at the local level.
The Daily Herald reports Lincolnshire Creates Right-to-Work Zone that Unions Oppose.
Lincolnshire has become the first town in the Chicago area to establish itself as a right-to-work zone, a move critics have assailed as anti-union.
To create the zone, the village board approved an ordinance preventing local employers from requiring workers to pay union dues with payroll deductions.
That proposal was a major tenet of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s controversial Turnaround Agenda for Illinois, which many people have blasted as being anti-union.
Elements of the Turnaround Agenda — especially the right-to-work proposal — have been criticized as unconstitutional, too.
In a formal opinion issued in March, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said federal labor law allows such policies to be enacted only on a statewide basis.
But that didn’t stop Lincolnshire’s village board Monday, which quickly approved the plan after listening to an hour of public comments.
Courage to Take a Stand
Unions packed the village halls as they normally do for such affairs.
Coercion, threats, and backroom deals with corrupt politicians to get their way are all part of union tactics.
But in a 5-1 vote, the board had the courage to do the right thing.
“This is union busting,” Chicago resident and union organizer Ken Edwards told the board. “You the trustees are being used. The 1 percent are using you to get to us.” …
