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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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Uh oh……..looks like somebody is confusing a Democratic Party kickback and jobs mechanism with education again. When will they ever learn? Sigh…..
On the bright side the kids will learn how to hold signs. Maybe even spell some words correctly.
CTU is a disgusting, incompetent, Marxist mess.
“incompetent, Marxist mess”?, NO, they are master hustlers taking you for every cent you got while masquerading as “new machine” faux marxist/socialists. In reality they’re no different than old school Madigan pay-to-play machine…..it’s state law w guaranteed not to be diminished contracts that set the stage for the endless taxpayer $hustle$. CTU’s just taking advantage. What other state allows public sector employees to purse politics, protest, lobby and negotiate for themselves at the taxpayers expense??
A couple of observations: -Teachers who claim their participation in a march “to march, protest and agitate” is a field trip for students get free buses paid for by CPS to transport their students, a value of probably at least $500. Should the schools be paying for, and allowing, class time to be spent on union activities? -The protest is billed as “stop the billionaire agenda”. Their co-conspirator, the Illinois governor who is currently trying his hardest to buy a presidential nomination, is a billionaire. Do they not see the irony? -The poster also directs union members not to consume… Read more »
Don’t expect common sense from people that cry for the head of Musk on a platter or shoot CEO’s in the back of the head yet rally around millionaires like AOC and Crackpot Bernie.
Maybe CTU should push reading, math and science, and actually do their job.
Absolutely despicable on so many levels…Is their any other state where you can purse your political agenda, lobby for your benefits, etc all on the taxpayers dime while being highest paid big city teachers nationally in a bankrupt Chicago? One can only assume all of are other public sec heroes will be demanding the same. Will CTU/Brandon show up for May 1 to rally with his CTU buddies? If he’s not to busy heroically equity hustling about the legacy of ‘community disinvestment’, city debt due solely to racist past, etc, etc all on the taxpayers dime in bankrupt Chicago….I’ll bet… Read more »
Get a load of “big balls”, $300gs yr, “y’all aint sh#t”–CTU/Stacy on what to expect at May 1 rally @ min 6:11. The wacky northwestern NTEU guy is way over the top as well @ min 17:44. As well as the AFSCME lady at min 25:16…….all on the taxpayer dime!!!!
(https://www.facebook.com/ctulocal1/videos/were-proud-to-support-the-may-day-coalition-action-at-union-park-with-consejo-de/30311083015157667)
here’s CTU from a couple days ago, on a school day, with 50 CTU members lobbying in Springfield for $$MORE$$ and Tier 2 “fix” on the taxpayers dime!!!!
https://www.facebook.com/ctulocal1/posts/on-april-23-we-hit-the-road-to-springfield-to-do-what-we-do-best-organizemore-th/1092278909609929/
The biggest May 1 scam with are CTU equity hustlers and other public sector unions is they’re hijacking the legacy of those who fought for union rights in INDUSTRY, back when Chicago produced things, back when Chicago was the industrial capital of the world, back when Chicago was the envy of the world, to now bilking dopey taxpayers out of every last dime they got in machine Illinois. While it’s supposedly DT who’s fighting for what little is left of industrial manufacturing unions. …for me, DT is also peddling usury because I believe his trade war is a disaster, we’re… Read more »