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Important Updates for State Employees – October 2017
State Budget Mess Goes On More than two years of budgetary hostage-taking by Governer Bruce Rauner have left Illinois in dismal fiscal shape. Our state was already in financial trouble when Rauner took...
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Important Updates for State Employees- January 2018
Lessons from the Quincy Veterans Home The bright spotlight now being shone on the deaths and illness as a result of Legionnaire’s Disease at the Quincy Veterans Home provides a tragic and telling...
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Important Update for State Employees Feb 2018
Back Pay Appropriation Bills in the House and Senate With a new session of the Illinois General Assembly getting underway, AFSCME is renewing the push for legislation to fund back pay owed to thousands...
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IMPORTANT NEWS UPDATES FOR MARCH 2018
Illinois Supreme Court Rejects Rauner Appeal on Steps AFSCME has won another round in the battle for payment of step increases that Gov. Rauner has illegally frozen since July 1, 2015. When bargaining...
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Important Updates for State Employees: May 2018
Back Pay Lobby Day—11 AM, Thursday May 10! Make your plan now to be at the State Capitol on May 10 to urge state legislators to pass SB 2269, an appropriation bill to fund back wages owed to thousands...
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Another AFSCME Win: Labor Board Rejects Rauner’s Delay Tactic
AFSCME members won another important victory today at the Labor Board! In a June 12 hearing in Springfield on the matter of step increases that Gov. Rauner has illegally withheld from state employees...
View ArticleMisleading Message from Rauner Administration
Today you may have received a memo via the state email system from the Rauner Administration purporting to interpret the recent Supreme Court ruling in the case of Janus v AFSCME Council 31. As you...
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Important Updates for State Employees – August 2018
Finally—Payment of Back Wages Owed Since 2011! This week, finally, there are indications that state government has begun to prepare the vouchers needed to pay more than 20,000 employees in five state...
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