Rauner Settles with Operating Engineers, Plumbers & Machinists

A press release from Governor Bruce Rauner:

Rauner Administration – Trade Unions Reach Agreements

SPRINGFIELD – After several months of good faith negotiations, Governor Bruce Rauner has agreed to terms on new four-year collective bargaining agreements with the

  • International Union of Operating Engineers
  • United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry
  • International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers

The last set of agreements expired June 30, 2015.

The new contracts cover workers at the Departments of Agriculture, Central Management Services, Corrections, Historic Preservation, Human Services, Juvenile Justice, Military Affairs, Transportation, Veterans’ Affairs, and the Illinois State Police. The employees are all professional tradesmen and women who work as stationary engineers and plant operators, plumbers and steamfitters, and machinists.

The tentative agreements are being submitted to the membership of the trade unions for a ratification vote. The terms of the tentative agreements are confidential until the end of the ratification process.

As a continuation of the productive negotiating sessions, the trade unions and the Governor’s Office also pledged to form a long-term relationship to improve employer-labor relations in state government.


Comments

Rauner Settles with Operating Engineers, Plumbers & Machinists — 5 Comments

  1. The reason the economy is in the sad state it is in, UNIONS!!

  2. BOHICA – Illinois taxpayers.

    Looks like your pensions will soon be taxable income.

    Somebody has to pay for this, and we all know who that somebody is now don’t we ?

    Nothing is “off the table” in the State of Illinois.

  3. All of those on Social Security will paying state income tax as well, it seems to me.

  4. Glad he can get a work done that more than likely belittles people that work for a living!

    Good for the governor treating people at wake up at 5AM to do manual labor cause fuck them!

    Lazy bastards!!

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