Voice of the Reader: Rauner's union-busting ruse : Opinion

To the Editor:

You all sure bought the Rauner, anti-union rhetoric hook, line and sinker.

I guess I am one of those voracious union bosses since I led the teachers in Carterville for over 20 years. Decent contract, salaries and working conditions but not a cent in my pocket except what all the teachers got. The governor wants to see right-to-work legislation, which he hopes will do away with collective bargaining. Who benefits by that? Not the state but corporate Illinois wanting lower wages to increase their bottom line.

Whether workers are union or not, they benefit by union insistence on living wages and safe, decent working conditions. Right-to-work means no due process in firing and the right to work at lower wages.

Bringing 'business' to Illinois will happen, lower wages, little to no regulation and bigger bottom line are enticements. Of course, that means less taxes paid into state coffers, especially if you add in corporate tax breaks. Abusers to the system? There are due process rules so that shirkers can be fired. I have no sympathy for Speaker Madigan. Democrats have given the electorate what they demand but have not provided the revenues to to pay for services. The fat I see in Illinois are not in union and legislative pockets but in corporate pants and the generous salaries of the governor's appointed experts who will tell us how to provide more and pay less tax.

Do the math Illinois.

Marlene Koerner

Herrin

Voice of the Reader: Rauner's union-busting ruse : Opinion