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Recent News About Illinois Labor Relations Board
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Illinois appellate court upholds decision to exclude six ICC directors from collective bargaining
A panel of Illinois appellate judges has ruled that six directors at the Illinois Commerce Commission can't be represented by a union because they are managerial employees. -
Appeals panel: ILRB must hear union's claims over threat to stick strikers with health insurance bill
For the second time in three days, a state appeals court in Southern Illinois has handed a win to a labor union representing state workers in disputes with a state agency that answers to Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, this time finding a state labor board must hold hearings on whether the state improperly threatened to make striking workers pay the full cost of their health insurance. -
Appeals court: State must give union workers their pay raises while negotiating new contract
A state appeals court dealt Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner a setback Nov. 6 by ruling in favor of union employees on the question of stepped salary increases, saying whether or not there is a collective bargaining agreement in place, the union workers are owed the regular pay raises, which the state hasn't paid since a contract expired in 2015. -
Appeals panel: North Riverside can't just end CBA to privatize fire department, save big pension bucks
The village of North Riverside has suffered yet another loss in court in its attempt to get out from under what it has called a financial crisis, as a state appeals court has upheld a state labor board’s determination the village could not use that purported crisis as an excuse to avoid a demand by its firefighters’ union to submit to arbitration a dispute over the village’s attempt to privatize fire protection services to save $700,000 per year and offload its pension obligations. -
Appeals court: CTA workers union may have been too late in bringing labor case over Ventra rollout
A state appeals court has reversed itself, directing the Illinois Labor Relations Board to take yet another look at a 2013 unfair labor practice case brought by a union against the Chicago Transit Authority over its handling of the rollout of the Ventra fare payment system. -
Appeals panel: CTA may have broken labor deal in rearranging jobs amid Ventra rollout
Appeals panel: CTA may have broken labor deal in rearranging jobs amid Ventra rollout -
Appeals panel: Cook Sheriff must bargain with union on rules governing association with gang members
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office can unilaterally impose rules on employees' social media activity, but can’t do so without first consulting the union when forbidding sheriff’s deputies and correctional officers from associating with gang members, a state appeals court has ruled.