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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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Are any of the AFSCME Local 31 city jobs part of mayoral election process, are they election workers? Would potential strike interfere with election process? Would this be a first to have election workers on strike during election for city of Chicago?
Are there any laws prohibiting election workers involved in election process from striking, picketing, etc during elections? or with passage of Amendment 1 will all election workers be able to strike, picket, etc during elections?
Am I missing something or is there an ignore button somewhere? Getting tired of reading the same garbage from a few posters.
Yes. It’s in the address bar at the top of your browser. Works just like TV or Radio channels. You are in charge.
The government can’t ever seem to sign a new union contract before a significant time after the previous contract has expired. Why is that? I assume negotiations begin far before the current contract end date.
It’s called kicking the can down the road. Why face the consequences and admit that more money is needed for the new contract now when you can delay until the following year and deal with the consequences later. It’s the Illinois way and voters like it.
Unions are a cancer on Chicago and Illinois — the 2-stage chemotherapy is (1) a bankruptcy to wipe out all union contracts and (2) a constitutional amendment to ban public sector unions
Failing schools so a teacher strike looms. Somehow that doesn’t make sense but the usual solution is to throw more money at s problem instead of demanding performance standards from the teacher crowd.
Bust the union. Fire them all. Taxpayer leeching scum.
You can’t bust them. It’s their constitutional right. Negotiate a fair contract or they don’t work.
You are conflating collective bargaining with unions because your parasitical simp brain can’t think beyond gimee gimee gimee. Collective bargaining is protected, unions are simply extortion rackets and mob. Bust those extortionist m’fers. Burn them down.
“Employees shall have the fundamental right to organize and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing for the purpose of negotiating wages, hours, and working conditions, and to protect their economic welfare and safety at work. No law shall be passed that interferes with, negates, or diminishes the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively over their wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment and work place safety, including any law or ordinance that prohibits the execution or application of agreements between employers and labor organizations that represent employees requiring mem Usually the most ignorant… Read more »
Agreed. Terminate every one of these greed-crazed parasites
They have been without a contract since last summer so this didn’t just pop up before the election. People won’t show up for work if they don’t think the pay and benefits are worth it. Negotiate a contract or face not having workers. Pretty simple.
The Teamsters union shop i worked in during the late 70’s and early 80’s on the north side was broken relatively quickly. The business planned for the work stoppage. The Pritzkers who owned the business had no qualms over breaking the union, and indeed the work was moved to Memphis. I was not aware of what motivated the Pritzkers exactly – the location was a warehouse and distribution center and in the scheme of things not all that labor intensive, meaning high wages and benefits did not impact the bottom line nearly as much as a manufacturing center. I guessed… Read more »
“The challenge with public sector unions is that public officials can’t endure a work stoppage because it alienates the workers and related people who vote for them. Little wonder FDR thought public unions a bad idea. Query why you would not mention this, PPF.” People mention FDR being against unions like it’s some kind of gospel. I don’t mention it because it’s an opinion from history with zero basis in the law. There was a time where many believed only land owners could vote or only men. Seems weird to me to bring up things in the past that have… Read more »