Lisa Madigan seeks to stop state workers’ pay until budget passed

SPRINGFIELD – (From the Springfield Journal Register- Click to read the entire post. Here is an excerpt) Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a motion to stop the payment of

Attorney General Lisa Madigan (Chicago Sun-Times photo

state workers’ salaries until legislators and Gov. Bruce Rauner approve a spending plan to end a more than 18-month budget stalemate. & The motion filed Thursday asks the St. Clair County Circuit Court to dissolve by Feb. 28 a preliminary injunction that allows for state workers to be paid during the budget impasse. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31 spokesman Anders Lindall said the union was “shocked and extremely disappointed” by the filing. & “Despite all the chaos in state government in the past two years, the people of Illinois have been able to count on state employees being on the job to serve them,” Lindall said. “The last thing Illinois needs is the further instability that blocking state payroll could cause.”