have voted to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers after discovering a way to bypass the chamber's missing Democrats.Maybe the State Senate Democrats shouldn't have moved to Illinois. My friends in the State House hinted at this possibility a couple weeks ago. The big stink (by the left) now is whether or not the vote for this action was held legally (that is, without a 24-hours notice). The Senate Republicans just amended the original Budget Bill to strip all the verbiage EXCEPT the collective bargaining portion (with unchanged wording), therefor the 'action' itself never changed.