In Illinois, lawmakers are primed to make enacting local right-to-work laws a criminal offense, with up to a year in jail for the local politicians doing so. Professor Laurie Reynolds, speaking to the Illinois News Network, says taking a step to criminalize state-local disagreements warps the nature of local democracy. "I have to think that a state court in Illinois would invalidate this as an abuse of state legislative power," she says. "This is really beyond the pale."
Full article at Illinois News Network