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Mark Konkol: "CTU leaders want us to believe they're fighting for kids when, behind closed doors, they want extra money for less teaching."
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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Minimally, for the sake of optics alone, you’d think the CTU would want to go into the schools and do the e- learning from that location. These Slugs refuse to even show up where they work.
CTU are the very worst of all public sector unions. During the Illinois Bankruptcy I look forward to all Public Sector Unions collective bargaining rights to be ended. CTU, AFSCME and SEIU will be busted.
Sure bankruptcy could toss a collective bargaining agreement but not the right to collectively bargain. You will need to get a majority of legislators and a governor that would sign the law to remove collective bargaining.
Get ready for it. Wisconsin is coming to Illinois.
Illinois Bankruptcy cannot be fully remedied until Public Sector unions are destroyed.
My daughter went back to school today full time and on campus. It was a delight to see all the kids at drop off this morning. Really good to see the private schools biting the bullet and getting back to class. Shame on the Public School system. Am I going to receive a refund on the school portion of my property taxes? Assuming our Governor does not shut down the private schools, and believe me we can expect him to try, things are only going to get worse for the public school teachers, especially if there are no outbreaks of… Read more »
It is becoming a hot issue about a refund on are property tax portion for public school districts. I’ve talked to many a people and they are all asking the same thing, I do foresee lawsuits forthcoming.
You can talk all you want but there is no property tax refund on the horizon. The state and local governments are looking for a federal bailout because they don’t have enough money. There is no money for a refund so not sure where you think they would get the money for this. You can complain on this website or other social media outlets to make you feel better but property tax refunds are laughable. Instead of refunds I am confident that they will increase your taxes for next year.
Yes I agree taxes will go up and that refunds are laughable. But there are embers of resistance.
Without a Washington bailout until 2024 at the earliest (if ever) Illinois’s financial insolvency will drive change. Nearly at junk bond status now. No lay-offs yet in Illinois Government, insolvency practitioner’s will have an very easy place to start albeit minuscule in the overall scheme of things.
Ultimately the ballot box will prevail and all the wrongdoings and corruption will be on the wrong side of history. Maybe not in my lifetime but at some point.
Have a great day.
Ctu members should also be given minium 4 hrs day to work the election and do ballet harvesting…to insure they land gigantic $HEROS ACT$ bailout/payday for papa madigan to dole out after November….its only fair!!