It's Called A Shakedown
Every once in a while someone says something so succinctly that really, nothing more need be said. And that person is MiC:
Agreeing to reducing earned benefits in exchange for a promise to pay benefits which have already been earned is not something of real value. It’s a shell game and a betrayal of trust.
Agreeing to reducing earned benefits in exchange for a promise to pay benefits which have already been earned is not something of real value. It’s a shell game and a betrayal of trust.
Background here.
For the record, I reviewed the Illinois constitution this evening. No where is the IEA or the IFT mentioned in it. They are not assigned by the constitution as agents who can negotiate away my constitutional rights. Their only appropriate roll is to protect those rights on behalf of the people paying their dues.