Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner’s administration is trying to convince state employees that a strike would be “reckless.”
About 30-thousand state employees who belong to the union AFSCME are starting a 3-week-long process in which they’ll be voting on whether they should strike.
If they vote yes, a strike would not immediately occur; the vote just gives AFSCME the authority to call a strike down the road.
The vote is the result of a lengthy fight between the union and Governor Rauner.
In an email to state workers Monday - a member of Rauner’s administration warns employees against striking - saying it would disrupt their pay, health insurance, and pensions.
The email also says the strike would be - quote - “against the taxpayers”...and talks about a potential disruption in government services.
AFSCME has said Rauner prematurely walked away from negotiations.
