An Illinois budget deal that will end public employee collective bargaining.
Making a deal to end collective bargaining?
In the Fall of 2003 our local bargaining team sat across the table from members of our board of education.
Our contract had expired the previous August and here it was, November, and we were still at it.
And then board member Joe Baldi leaned into the table and said, “You know, Klonsky. Teachers are just another cost that needs to be contained.”
A few days later, at a union local membership meeting, I shared Joe’s bargaining theory with our members. They voted 93% to authorize a strike.
Crain’s Greg Hinz is reporting today that there are serious proposals on the table for a possible break in the budget log-jam in Springfield. It includes something that Joe Baldi might have come up with. Democratic Party Senator Heather Steans’ proposal would create a third tier pension plan and former Rahm operative, Greg Goldner’s would end public employee collective bargaining of wages.
Neither Rauner nor any of the legislative leaders would comment on the proposal. But neither did they publicly reject it. One top Springfield insider privately griped to me about “a political
An Illinois budget deal that will end public employee collective bargaining. | Fred Klonsky:
