Please help to stop the attack against active and retired teachers in Illinois.
Imagine a law written by lawmakers who are actively breaking the law while also violating their oath of office. Now, imagine that the law is meant to steal the active and/or retired teachers legally deferred compensation (pensions) in Illinois. Now, imagine that the same law will steal from nearly all state employees and retirees on Dec. 3, 2013.
It is not necessary to imagine. It is reality. The vote is scheduled.
It is not necessary to imagine. It is reality. The vote is scheduled.
“The significant issue of pension reform is its attack on public employees’ rights to constitutionally-guaranteed, earned compensation and the legislators’ obligation to safeguard those promises. An unconscionable constitutional challenge of those rights and earned benefits generates a serious threat to their secure sense of worth as citizens and creates the unfair possibility for an economic disadvantage for a particular group of people and their families. This can never be legally or morally justified.”Read Glen Brown’s full article HERE.The We Are One Illinois Coalition has declared this Monday (Dec. 2) as Pension Emergency Day. Teachers,public employees and their friends are strongly encouraged to email and call legislators who were specifically selected because they could potentially vote either way.Read Todd Mertz’s message and contact list HERE.
“If we in Illinois have nearly the highest rate of required contributions historically and nearly 80% of us get no social security, how could we be the only state in the union with such a miserable funded ratio? Was it us? I don’t think so, and yet the bond companies
