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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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More union workers are wising up — and realizing that their crooked corrupt racketeer union bosses only care about enriching themselves — and care ZERO about the rank and file
The article does not state your conclusion. The article is attempting to draw a correlation between union states and right to work states overall population trends. It does not discuss union workers leaving their state to go to a right to work state.
People on this site complain that union employees cost more money. That’s because they are paid better and have better benefits. Your far out conclusion that rank and file are upset with this arrangement is absurd.
MORE THAN 38,000 WORKERS HAVE LEFT GOVERNMENT UNIONS IN ILLINOIS — The unions’ own federal reports show 9% of workers have chosen to break away from unions since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/more-than-38000-workers-have-left-government-unions-in-illinois/#:~:text=More%20than%2038%2C000%20state%20and,touch%20with%20what%20members%20want.
The article you are referencing is about people not wanting to pay government union dues not leaving the state for non union jobs or right to work states. Does the article say that those 38k people left the state? No. So I comment to someone else that they didn’t understand the article that they just read (or didn’t read) and then you respond to another article that also doesn’t make the point that union people are leaving this state for right to work states. Some people like to get things for free. A certain percentage of people don’t tip their… Read more »
The posts by Giddyap and Maestro were not commenting on population trends — they were commenting on union members leaving unions over their focus on issues unrelated to worker issues (a related, but distinct issue, suggested by the same article). So your replies — to an issue they were not even addressing — were nonsensical non-sequiturs.
In the future, please try to follow the conversation, instead of clumsily re-casting the content of other posters’ statements — to create another opportunity for you to bloviate. That sort of boorish behavior is quite annoying.
Unions also make employees lazier and slower. And the citizens, customers and general public pay the price to subsidize their laziness and sloth.