The union’s recent 2025 filing with the U.S. Department of Labor reveals that less than 17 percent of IEA’s spending was on representing members – what should be the union’s focus. Instead, IEA spent a record-breaking amount on politics, with little transparency.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.