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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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CTU should be reclassified as a political entity. They do nothing for students, and little to represent quality teachers.
I don’t know that it’s a high priority on any union’s agenda anywhere to focus as a laser might do on anything beyond worker pay and benefits, safety and job security. The things you stress usually are of higher priority to the employer who presumably plans and acts accordingly.
And this is why there should not be any public sector unions. When they say it is for the children, they mean the union clown children.