Public-Sector Unions Just Lost Their Most Reliable Allies in Blue State Legislatures
Illinois and New Jersey both passed pension-tier reforms this spring with bipartisan supermajorities. The political alignment that made AFSCME untouchable is fraying.
When a Democratic governor of Illinois signs a Tier IV pension bill, the underlying coalition has shifted in a way that polling has yet to capture.
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