Sunday, August 26, 2012

Can the most anti-labor Illinois governor in 50 years lead a grassroots campaign? « Fred Klonsky

Can the most anti-labor Illinois governor in 50 years lead a grassroots campaign? « Fred Klonsky:


Can the most anti-labor Illinois governor in 50 years lead a grassroots campaign?


You would have to go back before Adlai Stevenson, elected in 1949, to find an Illinois Governor more anti-labor than Pat Quinn.
I couldn’t help but laugh when I read that Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced this week that he was going tolead a grassroots campaign to strip public employees of their pension rights.
Well, maybe not laugh exactly, since it’s my pension too.
But the thought of Pat Quinn, the guy who got chased out of the Illinois State Fair last week by members of the


The in box. Esther asks, “Did I dream this up?”

Did I dream this up?
Illinois Voters: Give teachers their pensions
August 23, 2012 By IEA Communications
Illinois Voters: Give teachers their pensions; find non-punative solution to pension crisis
Springfield, IL – A new statewide poll shows the efforts of Governor Quinn and other politicians to win public support for proposals to cut pensions for teachers and other public employees has failed. Rather, it shows that voters overwhelmingly believe that teachers are entitled to their full retirement benefits and that politicians should find fixes to the pension mess that do not punish 


The Sunday Mail.


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John Dillon’s Pension vocabulary: Pedantic Profits.  Caterpillar’s Chief Executive Doug Oberhelman says that the U.S. manufacturing workforce is lagging, and education is at