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Then a social studies in the Chicago Public Schools system, Johnson in 2011 joined organizing efforts with the Teachers Union, helping organize the 2012 Chicago teachers’ strike that earned teachers a 17.6 percent pay rise over four years. He also supported the Chicago Public Schools’ strike in 2019, appearing at a solidarity rally and writing newspaper opinion letters in support of striking teachers and staff.
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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Johnson is the stooge of the crooked corrupt Chicago Teachers Union
What’s the expiration date on leveraging your previous profession in your current endeavors? Does it depend on how long you were in that position? I understand veterans do this all the time (see Duckworth) and I suppose I’m OK with them doing that. But if I was a medical doctor for 5 years, then spent the next 20 years as a hospital administrator, can I keep leaning on my hands-on experience as a doctor? Seems there should be an expiration date or it falls way back on the resume. I remember when Preckwinkle ran for mayor, she kept saying she… Read more »