Bruce Rauner’s scheme to strip the rights of state workers and weaken their unions by executive order is a blatantly illegal abuse of power… Perhaps as a private equity CEO, Rauner was accustomed to ignoring legal and ethical standards, but Illinois is still a democracy and its laws have meaning.
— Roberta Lynch, executive director of AFSCME Council 31, blasting Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner for issuing an executive order intended to bring about the destruction of the state’s public sector unions.
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