The teachers and bureaucrats are burning up sick time on the public nickel. Every night these fat and happy thugs will wave their communist placards on TV in front of the unemployed with property taxes due. The longer Republicans wait, the more pissed at these obnoxious, highly visible, too-much-time-on-their-hands and only-too-happy-not-to-work public employees the taxpaying public will get, and the less cash the teachers will have to sustain a real stand-off. Heating bills and house payments are due anyway.
Meanwhile, the government shuts down while revenues accrue. The people thrown out of work will be mostly hourly, including contract workers.
What's not to like?
Let em stay in Illinois for as long as they like. Also re-write the bills and make them even tougher. F em.