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Watch as Representative Nekritz and Senger discuss how SB1 compares to SB2404 when it comes to robbing pensioners. VIDEO
Representatives Nekritz and Senger meet with reporters in this video. They are talking to reporters about the relative savings to the pension debt of Madigan’s SB1 and We Are One/Cullerton… more →
Fred Klonsky
Watch as Representative Nekritz and Senger discuss how SB1 compares to SB2404 when it comes to robbing pensioners. VIDEO
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wrote 9 hours ago: Representatives Nekritz and Senger meet with reporters in this video. They are talking to reporters … more →
The in box. People are corporations too, my friend.
wrote 15 hours ago: The Chicago Tribune: So Illinois is in such dire financial shape that it must violate the contractua … more →
SB2404. A pension bill Republicans can love.
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wrote 2 days ago: Illinois House Republican Chad Hays. Some members of the tiny Illinois Republican Party are telling … more →
Take your polls. The Constitutional issues are complex. But ask the members.
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wrote 3 days ago: Some in the IEA leadership want to blame me because people are starting to ask questions. The leader … more →
The in box. "It's Klonsky and the pension bloggers' fault."
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wrote 3 days ago: The flurry of E-mail, accusations and “misrepresentations” concerning SB 2404 a … more →
Compare and contrast. Cinda tries to explain. John Dillon responds and translates.
wrote 3 days ago: From IEA President Cinda Klickna on SB2404: “There have been questions raised about language amended … more →
Compare and contrast. Under SB2404 will health care be a vested contractual right?
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wrote 4 days ago: What the IEA says about SB2404: “Access to State-provided healthcare/insurance is currently no … more →
Compare and Contrast. The truth about SB2404.
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wrote 4 days ago: What the IEA says: Choice A No change to 3% compounded COLA, except that COLA is subject to … more →
What Cinda Klickna doesn't say about SB2404. Why we are not somebody else's constituency.
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wrote 4 days ago: Here’s is IEA President Cinda Klickna’s message to IEA members about Senate Bill 2404. S … more →
The in box. "What a screw job!"
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wrote 4 days ago: Fred, Excellent work Fred! I questioned the same remark but fell asleep before pursuing it. I was at … more →
Question to the IEA Board of Directors this morning: Did you know about cutting off the subsidy to TRIP?
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wrote 4 days ago: Now that it has been revealed that part of the deal that it appears the We Are One coalition agreed … more →
What does We Are One know? When did they know it? Why didn't they tell us? A shocking development.
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wrote 5 days ago: The email came from the Illinois Retired Teachers Association announcing the Illinois General Assemb … more →
IEA leaders are asking members to buy a pig in a poke.
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wrote 5 days ago: Fred: I was at a recent gathering of a number of retired teaching colleagues who have been retired f … more →
Randi Weingarten ain't "us."
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wrote 6 days ago: There were a lot of stunning comments coming from Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federa … more →
Glen Brown: We Are One cannot bargain away the rights of retirees.
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wrote 6 days ago: From Glen Brown’s blog: The Illinois Retired Teachers Association Lauds Cullerton’s Good Faith … more →
Randi Weingarten responds to my blog post on pensions.
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wrote 1 week ago: NY UFT President Michael Mulgrew and AFT President Randi Weingarten. The following statement was sen … more →
SB2404. The red coats are coming. The red coats are coming. Randi is coming for your pension.
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wrote 1 week ago: Graphic: Chicago Reader. From the article: Blogger Fred Klonsky’s Crusade Against Education Re … more →
The in box. What SB2404 will cost a retiree. What it will cost the state.
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wrote 1 week ago: There is still much that is not explained about the provisions of SB2404. Choice A for retirees call … more →
The in box. "What would stop the state from revisiting this in the future?"
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wrote 1 week ago: Fred, The pension protection clause contained in the 1970 Constitution served to eliminate any uncer … more →
