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Patrick Young, president of the Kankakee and Iroquois Building Trades, backed the project because the company signed a labor agreement saying they’re going to use “100% of union crafts” for part of the project as well as any “ancillary work,” such as for improvements to area roads and a nearby bridge. “It’s going to generate revenue. Listen, not every student that’s going to Manteno High School is going to go to college,” said Young, also a representative for Local 150 for the International Union of Operating Engineers. “Manufacturing is gone from Kankakee County. This is bringing manufacturing back.”
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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Another crap Tribune article. Attempts to dismiss critics as right wing even though poll shows overwhelming statewide opposition. Completely understates the volume of evidence on Gotion’s connection to CCP. Ignores the $7.5 billion federal subsidy for the Gotion IL plant.
Even the headline uses the verb ‘championed’ which is an archaic and rarely used word to describe support. When is the last time you or anyone you know used the word ‘championed’ in writing or speaking? Rarely, if ever, I suppose. The journalists could have used ‘supported’ or backed or endorsed or, my favorite, ‘threw his weight behind’. Most people don’t even know that championed is a verb or even know the definition. But the journalists used ‘championed’ to make the connotation that JB is the champion, he defeated his opponents, once again! He championed over his vocal opponents, who… Read more »
Every company from China has connections with the Communist government of China. China is way ahead of the US in battery technology. Let see you get someone from the CPS build a battery plant. Americans cannot get enough of the products made in China. Mark how many Apple Phones in your family, Nike Shoes, Clothes, TV’s, etc.? Made in America now is made all over the world. Unions destroyed many American manufacturing business. Now Buy in America is popular, a little too late. Every US company has ties to the US Government, all over Europe it is the same. Governments… Read more »
Disgraceful
Idiots, wasting more tax payer money. Let the EV market survive on it’s own, it wont.