How Low Can Your Salary Go? 117 ALEC Bills in 2013 Fuel Race to the Bottom

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At least 117 bills introduced in 2013 fuel a "race to the bottom" in wages, benefits, and worker rights and resemble "model" bills from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), according to a new analysis by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), publishers of ALECexposed.org

Harold Schaitberger, General President of the International Association of Fire Fighters, put it best when he told CMD, "The sole purpose of ALEC has been to develop the most anti-middle class, pro-corporation policies, legislation, and agenda in history. They've been waiting for just the right moment to reverse the progress of the American middle class and drive everyone to the bottom, to the lowest wages, the weakest benefits, no job security, and no retirement to speak of. We may not have the billions of dollars of the Koch brothers. But we have each other and we must stick together and fight ALEC's cynical and un-American agenda."

Here's a list of ALEC's workers' rights bills in Illinois:

IL Right to Work Act HB 3160
IL Political Funding Reform Act HB 3161
IL Public Employee Bargaining Transparency Act HB 2689
IL School Collective Bargaining Agreement Sunshine Act HB 182


You can click on the links for the bills at the above site.

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1. Harold Schaitberger

put it very well. That is a paragraph we can all use.