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Monday, January 10, 2011

What are they doing to us in Springfield? « Fred Klonsky's blog

What are they doing to us in Springfield? « Fred Klonsky's blog

What are they doing to us in Springfield?

As I write this early in the morning of Monday, there are only a few more days left in the current session of the Illinois legislature.

The worst always happens in the last days of a legislative session.

It is why I worry about handing over what had previously been negotiated locally to the legislature to decide.

Over the past twenty years our local negotiating team has never come away with a contract that did not improve our living and working conditions.

In Springfield, our lobbyists have rarely come away with anything that didn’t make our situation worse.