Organized labor got good news in an early legal skirmish against Governor Bruce Rauner over the governor’s attempts to curtail the fees non-union workers must pay for representation in collective bargaining.
Rauner had issued an executive order to end the practice, but unions sued and U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle has ruled that the dispute must be handled in Illinois state court, not federal court, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune. That’s important because Rauner had sought to move the unions’ suit to federal court, ostensibly a friendlier venue for his side of the argument. Separately, Rauner has filed a lawsuit in federal court with the hope of forcing the United States Supreme Court to rule on the matter, the Tribune noted.
This latest ruling comes on the heels of Democratic Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan issuing opinions that some of the Republican Rauner’s proposals for instituting “right-to-work” laws in the state would be illegal, mainly because they do not go through the state legislature.
Labor gets early good news in legal battle with Rauner over dues - Chicago Business Journal
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