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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Would I announce my bargaining position before bargaining? No. But that’s me. « Fred Klonsky

Would I announce my bargaining position before bargaining? No. But that’s me. « Fred Klonsky:

Would I announce my bargaining position before bargaining? No. But that’s me.

There was some concern about the way I reported Senate President John Cullerton’s statement yesterday.

On the video I posted, Cullerton said plainly that the state employee unions, our leadership included, had expressed a willingness to negotiate adjustments in the pension benefits of union members.

I wan’t shocked by Cullerton’s statement because our union leadership has said the same thing for months.

“The union hasn’t agreed to any proposal,” I was reprimanded by a reader.

Never said they did.

But the IEA leadership has said what their position for a bargained agreement must contain: It must be