IEA President Swanson and the Board of Directors stab retirees in the back.
At last year’s IEA Representative Assembly, IEA leadership called on the delegates to renounce their long-standing opposition to any change in the legislative platform that would weaken pension benefits.
Ken Swanson argued that the lobbyists must be allowed to sit at the table. While delegates from the IEA student chapter first opposed the change, they were brow beaten into submission. Others of us stood at the microphone, warning of the consequences.
A week later, Madigan got his two-tier pension system and any teacher hired after January 1st of this year is screwed.
Last night I received this from retired teacher, Ed Rosenthal:
Good Evening.
Tonight the IEA Board by a vote of 49-31 approved a change in the Legislative Platform from language that opposed taxation of retirement benefits to include an exception that allows IEA to