Union endorses gross receipts tax plan
By Kate Clements
Wednesday April 11, 2007
SPRINGFIELD – Just a day after Gov. Rod Blagojevich withdrew a controversial proposal to lay off 203 Department of Corrections workers, the union representing those workers endorsed his proposal for a $7.6 billion gross receipts tax.
Henry Bayer, executive director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31, said the timing of the endorsement was a coincidence.
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