We are encouraging you to promote a “Bring Your Cell Phone to Work Thursday.” We are asking that members contact their legislators throughout the day on Thursday – during breaks, planning periods, before and after school. The timing of the legislature’s actions is not lost on us. It’s the end of the school year and [...]
Put a stop to fast-track legislation to alter retirement security Send an email and ask to put a stop to any fast-track legislation that would forever alter the retirement security for hundreds of thousands of my public employee colleagues across the state. The mess in Proviso Township Chicago Tribune – The Proviso Township High School District [...]
Frustrated with politicians trying to force teachers, fire fighters, nurses and other public employees alone to bear the burden of solving the state’s pension funding crisis—a crisis politicians themselves caused by failing for years to pay their share to public retirement systems—the union coalition We Are One Illinois has launched a new campaign to call [...]
The buzz… View an important message from Jim Reed, Director of IEA Government Relations. Health insurance bill goes to governor SB 1313 (Madigan, D-Chicago/Schoenburg, D-Evanston) will leave the health insurance benefit and premium structure for retired state employees, retired General Assembly members, retired judges, and retired state university faculty and staff to the discretion of [...]
Thanks for all you do Today is National Teacher Day, and I want to thank you for your dedication, hard work and attention to our most important national resource — our students. And, on top of your busy and stressful days, you find the time to work in your communities, volunteer at events and lobby [...]
Today, Gov. Quinn announced a proposal to address the Illinois pension problem. The governor’s proposal applies to active employees enrolled in most state funded pension systems, including the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) and the State Universities Retirement System (SURS). According to the governor, this proposal would only affect current employees; retirees would not be impacted. [...]
The We Are One Illinois labor coalition, which includes IEA, IFT, AFSCME, the Illinois AFL-CIO and other organizations representing public sector workers, issues the following statement in reaction to Gov. Quinn’s pension plan announcement. NOTE: According to Gov. Quinn, the proposal would have no impact on those who are already retired. WE ARE ONE ILLINOIS [...]
As many as 5,000 union members and supporters gathered in Champaign Thursday to protest the appearance of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels at a Champaign County Republican Party dinner. Daniels ended collective bargaining in Indiana, taking away workers’ rights to negotiate contracts. He’s also pushed to expand charter schools, to tie teacher evaluations to salaries and [...]
Illinois delegates to the NEA RA can now make their guest room reservations at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel.
Community college students from around Illinois lobbied legislators, asking them to please increase money for MAP grants. MAP grants are given to college students around the state to help defray the cost of going to college.
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.