Speculating on how the IEA leadership will screw our pensions.
When I received Ed Rosenthal’s letter last week describing how IEA President Ken Swanson pushed through some crap at the Board of Director’s meeting about changing our legislative platform permitting the taxing of retiree pensions, I wondered, “What is that SOB up to?”
The representative of the retirees on the BOD opposed it. That meant nothing to Ken, whose lack of responsiveness to the rank-and-file is the stuff of legend.
Last RA, the student chapter pleaded with Ken not to change the legislative platform on the issue of a two-tier pension. The RA passed Ken’s proposal. A week later, with a green light from the IEA, Boss Madigan created a two-tier pension system.
Eh, they’re only kids. In 44 years when they want to retire and they’re 67 years old, and if there is still a pension