Teachers Union Wants Fund Managers Fired for Advocating Pension Reform
May 22, 2013
Pension funds pressured to deny First Amendment rights to hedge fund managers the unions don't like.
- 9,900 Illinois Government Pensioners With Annual Pension Over $100k – Taxpayers United of America
May 23, 2013
- Cullerton’s claimed savings from union backed reform proposal challenged -Tribune
May 22, 2013
"Senate President John Cullerton's pension reform proposal would slice only about half of what he estimated it would immediately cut"
Surprise, Surprise
- Clock Is Ticking on Illinois Pension Reform – The New American
May 15, 2013
"This is how business is done in the Illinois legislature: Promise the unions little if any change in exchange for political and financial support...."
- Illinois pension reform: Civic Federation sides with Madigan over Cullerton – Crain’s
May 13, 2013
- The Empire Strikes Back: Union-Supported Bill to Lien State Cash for Pensions Passes State Senate
May 9, 2013
Only the unions understand the insolvency game: The winners are those who slap their liens on first
And the savings would be minimal
- Madigan’s pension plan would perpetuate Illinois’ crisis – IL Policy Institute
May 9, 2013
- Editorial: What’s ‘morally’ wrong? Fake pension fix – Chicago Sun-Times
May 9, 2013
- Illinois Senate committee approves Cullerton’s union-backed pension plan
May 8, 2013
This reform proposal would do little, but a group of retired teachers will sue anyway.
- Illinois Unions So Drunk On Power They’re Crushing Even Democrats Now – Policymic
May 8, 2013
- Illinois Senate to vote on union-endorsed pension reform bill – Reuters
May 6, 2013
Would have little effect on the problem.
- Illinois’ tax revenue up but probably not for long
May 5, 2013
- Madigan offers his pension reform proposal – WirePoints Original
May 1, 2013
Stick it to the Kids -- let them pay for this mess
Courts to seize any tax dollars needed to fund the pensions
The negotiation is culminating among legislators with pensions and union chiefs with pensions; disputes to be resolved by judges with pensions
- Deval Patrick’s and Pat Quinn’s Multi-Billion Dollar Teachers’ Pension Woes – Dropout Nation
April 30, 2013
Yet another source shows that the official pension deficit numbers are baloney
ILLINOIS REMAINS IN DENIAL
Current reform proposals would barely dent the problem - State Police Retirees Draw Six-Figure Pensions at Age 50 – CBS Chicago Investigation
April 30, 2013
Pensions make them multimillionaires at age 50: To buy an annuity of $100k/year would cost about $2 million.
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