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"In Illinois, where plaintiff Mark Janus worked as a state employee, government unions have seen a 9% drop in membership — more than 38,000 workers — between 2021 and 2017, the last full year of data before Janus. To put it in perspective, that is equivalent to a sold-out baseball game at Chicago’s Wrigley Field. Though union membership is shrinking, the voices behind the megaphone keep getting louder. Those voices are also more detached from what workers want."
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Unions are the cancer that is killing Illinois
Don’t forget the politicians who ENABLE the unions to bring our state down.
The day is coming where the only people in Illinois will be public employees, illegal aliens, and welfare recipients.
Good luck when that day arrives because as the system is now they need to take money first from someone who is productive to be able to give it to someone who isn’t.