Pension update In Wednesday’s State of the State address, Gov. Quinn restated his belief that the Illinois pension problem, which, along with Medicaid, is having a major impact on the state budget, needs to be addressed in 2012. The key legislative leaders are echoing that belief. Illinois Labor Pension Coalition The unions representing the government [...]
Schedule your ‘Back Home Lobby Day’ When it comes to lobbying state legislators, where the contact occurs doesn’t matter as long as the member is well prepared for the meeting and will encourage support from the representative or senator. IEA members are urged to participate in “Back Home Lobby Days” by meeting with the lawmakers [...]
Schedule your ‘Back Home Lobby Day’ The Illinois Statehouse is under renovation, but IEA members cannot let the limited access to the State Capitol Building stop them from lobbying their state senators and representatives on school funding, pensions and all the other issues so important to public education. IEA leaders are urging members to participate [...]
Try something new with Read Across America The theme is “green” for a very special 2012 celebration. NEA’s Read Across America campaign will showcase the Lorax book as well as NBC/Universal’s The Lorax (featuring the voices of Taylor Swift, Zach Efron, Danny Devito and Betty White). For more information go to the NEA website. The film opens nationwide March [...]
Another IEA member winner! Congratulations to Katy F., a member of the SPEED Education Association, on winning one of the $100 gift cards. Will you be the winner of the other $100 Visa card? You could be if you log on to the IEA website, click on “My Profile” and check or update [...]
Win Bears tickets You could win two seats to the Dec. 18 Bears game vs. the Seattle Seahawks. To be entered, send an email to us with “Bears” in the subject line. A winner will be randomly selected Dec. 12 and named in the next insider. Entries must be received by 4 p.m., Dec. 12. [...]
The pension attack continues The group of millionaires and billionaires who want to cut the pensions of hard working public employees are scrambling to put together a new proposal after their original plan was exposed as adding $34 billion to pension costs. Since last spring, the Chicago-based Civic Committee has tried to ram through the [...]
Thursday, the final day of the first half of the fall session, began in a confusing manner. A newspaper story stated that House Republican Leader Tom Cross had claimed to have the GOP votes needed to pass SB 512. This report conflicted with everything we had heard from the Statehouse for the last few weeks. Later [...]
Pensions are on deck Now that the Illinois legislature is back at work, we’re hearing a lot of talk about public pensions (including TRS and SURS) and the state budget. We are keeping a close eye on the Statehouse. Bookmark the IEA website, “like” us on facebook, and follow us on twitter for the most [...]
IEA rebuts pension attack On the eve of the next legislative session, a lot of misinformation about pensions has appeared in the Chicago Tribune and elsewhere. IEA is going on offense: President Klickna has submitted an Op Ed piece to the Tribune and a news release has been sent to media outlets statewide. Go to [...]
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