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A labor coalition led by the Chicago Teachers Union is taking that advice to heart when it comes to the crisis caused by the coronavirus. The unions held a City Hall news conference Wednesday to unleash a kitchen sink of demands that might have been unthinkable before the worldwide pandemic that started in Wuhan, China:
• 15 paid sick days a year, instead of the five mandated for Chicago employers, with the protection extended statewide.
• A citywide meals-on-wheels program, internet access and electronic devices for students forced to stay home because of school closings like Vaughn and Resurrection High Schools.
• Debt forgiveness, suspended mortgage payments, a temporary shutdown of eviction court and a moratorium on utility shut-offs.
• No more penalizing schools by basing funding on school attendance.
• Adequate cleaning supplies — and a nurse in every school sooner than the hard-fought teachers’ contract demands.
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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All the money these fing thieves make you would think they would have money saved for a rainy day. Sounds like they are just as bad as the state of Illinois, no rainy day fund. I would like to say a few more things but I can’t , except who the hell do you think you people are.
Here’s an idea of how to deal with the CTU thugs: Fire them all.
Sure it will only be a matter of days before our public sector heroes start filing disability claims and lawsuits claiming hazardous workplace condition’s..an incredible cluster f**k in the making!!