'Right to Work' Ordinance Gets Lincolnshire Sued

LINCOLNSHIRE, IL - Four unions have sued the village of Lincolnshire over its right to work ordinance.

The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399, International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150, The Construction and General Laborers District Council of Chicago and Vicinity, Laborers’ International Union of North America, the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America filed the suit Feb. 18 in federal court in Chicago, according to the Daily Herald.

The lawsuit seeks to have the ordinance declared as invalid and to prevent its enforcement.

Last fall, the village adopted an ordinance that allows employees in the private sector to refuse union dues and fees from automatically being deducted from their paychecks. Unions and union supporters blasted the move as anti-union, but the village moved forward with the ordinance’s passage despite what the Daily Herald described as “overwhelming public opposition.”

Lincolnshire in effect labeled itself a “right-to-work” zone, which were created in Illinois as part of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s “Turnaround Agenda.” The village remains the only one in Chicagoland to adopt such an ordinance.

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