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Election day brought a win for union backers, when voters supported the so-called Workers’ Rights Amendment broadening rights in the Illinois constitution for collective bargaining. And organizers and their supporters are also hopeful the National Labor Relations Board is about to get a financial boost in a new federal spending plan.
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, the answer to nothing.
Look at PBS going passive-aggressive on labor…”so-called” Workers’ Rights Amendment.
For every dozen or so member gains at random Starbucks, the big unions continue to shed members. IEA down 1,000 members, SEIU Healthcare down 1,000, AFSCME31 down 2,000.
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Where’d you go
Joe DiMaggio…..