UPDATE: 12:55 pm, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 — The Illinois House is adjourned until Nov. 29. No action was taken on pension-cutting SB 512. UPDATE 6:40 pm, Wed, Nov. 9, 2011 – The General Assembly has adjourned until Thursday morning without holding a floor vote on pension-cutting SB 512. While Thursday is scheduled to be [...]
Full-time tenure track faculty continue to walk picket lines on the campus of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), where the strike by the SIUC Faculty Association is now in its third day. The walkout began last Thursday after negotiations failed to result in a contract for tenure track faculty. Three other campus unions reached [...]
IEA member Brandi Martin, a teacher from Aurora, has created a brief video that makes a compelling case for teacher pensions as a benefit for taxpayers and does so in a highly entertaining way. Watch it and feel free to share it with your friends and colleagues.
The pension cutting bill that IEA members and staff helped stop last spring is still alive. Though statehouse sources denied a newspaper’s report claiming that Republican Leader Tom Cross has the 30 GOP House votes he needs to move SB 512, the pension-cutting bill, IEA leaders say members must remain vigilant against new pension attacks. A [...]
An overflow crowd of teachers, firefighters, police officers, mental health works, state employees and other public workers, all of them union members, packed the Illinois Statehouse rotunda Wednesday for a rally in support of retirement security and collective bargaining rights. Represented were IEA, the Illinois Federation of Teachers, AFSCME, SEIU, the Fraternal Order of Police [...]
Jim Reed, IEA Director of Government Relations, provides an update on the legislative session scheduled to run October 25-27 and November 8-10. Reed reports that, while there are no pension-cutting proposals currently poised to move to a vote in the House or Senate, IEA members should remain attentive and be prepared to act quickly if [...]
An analysis of Senate Bill 512, the pension bill developed last spring by the Chicago-based Civic Committee, shows it would have cost taxpayers an additional $34 billion dollars for state pensions. IEA lobbyist Will Lovett explains what the analysts found and why the legislature should reject any attempts to ram through pension reform bills, especially [...]
Pensions are likely to come under attack during the fall legislative session which begins Oct. 25. A “call to action” could be declared by IEA with no warning, so be sure you’re ready and reachable. First, watch this short video of IEA President Cinda Klickna and Jim Reed, director of Government Relations, for more information. [...]
“Victory,” shows how teachers faced with an attack on their collective bargaining rights, demanded a seat at the reform bargaining where they advocated for their ideas for improving education.
Illinois Education Association is an association of more than 130,000 members composed of Illinois elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty and staff, educational support professionals, retired educators and college students preparing to become teachers. 
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