Saturday, May 18, 2013

UPDATE: What Cinda Klickna doesn’t say + Chicago’s West Side says no to closing schools. | Fred Klonsky

Chicago’s West Side says no to closing schools. | Fred Klonsky:




Compare and contrast. Under SB2404 will health care be a vested contractual right?

What the IEA says about SB2404:
“Access to State-provided healthcare/insurance is currently not guaranteed by the constitution. If SB 2404 is passed, State-provided healthcare would become a vested and enforceable contractual right, a status it does not have today.”
What John Cullerton says about SB2404:
The vested and enforceable contractual right to a program of health benefits is NOT offered as, and 


What Cinda Klickna doesn’t say about SB2404. Why we are not somebody else’s constituency.

Here’s is IEA President Cinda Klickna’s message to IEA members about Senate Bill 2404.
She attacks the IRTA as a “single constituency advocacy group.”
Of course, the single constituency she means are the retired members of the IEA in TRS. We are a rather important constituency when discussing pensions.
The stuff about administrators is silly.
IEA-Retired has retired administrators as well.
I was speaking at a luncheon of the IRTA last week. When I asked for a show of hands as to how many had 

Compare and Contrast. The truth about SB2404.

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What the IEA says:
Choice A
  •  No change to 3% compounded COLA, except that COLA is subject to 2 non-consecutive 1-year freezes, and then return to 3% compounded COLA for life
  • Receive retiree healthcare access
Choice B
  •  No change to 3% compounded COLA
  • No access to state health care insurance
The reality:
“Choice” A
  • The TRS COLA would continue to be 3 percent compounded annually calculated from the 


Chicago’s West Side says no to closing schools.

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