News reports. Agreements to delay some university pension theft implementation.
Capitalfax is reporting an agreement between Attorney General Lisa Madigan and the State University Annuitants Association to delay the implementation of parts of PA 98-599. From AG Lisa Madigan: The agreement is pending as it requires judicial approval before going into effect. The agreement delays implementation of the pension law until July 1, 2015. Specifically, the agreement protects SURS mem
Rahm gets sent to the principals office.
The following is the letter to the Sun-Times from Troy A. LaRaviere, Principal, Blaine Elementary School I am the son of a black father from the South Side and a white mother from the North Side. I grew up in Bronzeville and now live in Beverly. I attended five Chicago Public Schools and I’ve taught in every corner of Chicago, in schools that were predominately African-American, Latino-American a
The pension theft injunctions have been filed. Have we all just been used as pawns?
Did Squeezy, Cullerton and Madigan know it would fail all along? The pension theft that was called Senate Bill 1, now called Public Act 98-599, is scheduled to take effect on July 1st. Current retirees will continue to receive their current benefit – including the post retirement increase we received last February – until next year. Current active teachers and state employees will be impacted on
NEA and AFT conventions. Looking ahead.
I will be back at the NEA Representative Assembly this summer as an elected Retired delegate. With the exception of one year, I have been to every convention since 1998. The one year I didn’t go it was in Los Angeles. The Illinois delegation was put up in a hotel near LAX and the convention was at the Staples Center. I know LA. It’s my hometown. The thought of taking a shuttle bus from LAX to the
5-12-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: It’s a union movement.In 2010 Karen Lewis was elected President of the Chicago Teachers Union. She headed the slate of candidates organized by the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE). The CORE slate won 60% of the vote in a crushing defeat for the old guard leadership. Micah Uetricht tells the st