Chicago unions: ‘Don’t cut our pensions’
Chicago’s most powerful public worker unions are organizing against potential cuts to their retirement benefits.
Chicago’s most powerful public worker unions are organizing against potential cuts to their retirement benefits.
For years before Illinois lawmakers approved controversial changes to the state’s public pension systems, there was fierce debate about how bad the crisis was.
The city council today authorized Mayor Rahm Emanuel to issue up to $900 million in new bonds, while OKing new borrowing for short-term debt and Midway Airport projects.
Former Mayor Richard Daley has been hospitalized in an intensive care unit after feeling ill upon returning to Chicago from a business trip in Arizona.
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis says she’ll fight the sort of changes that state lawmakers want to impose on downstate teachers’ pension plans.
A dozen of Illinois’ most powerful state worker unions filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the controversial new pension overhaul signed into law in December.
Illinois is still facing multi-billion dollar budget shortfalls over the next decade even after savings from the state’s new pension law are calculated.
Chicago’s growing network of speed cameras have issued nearly 574,000 warnings. But they’ve brought in just a fraction of the cash City Hall expected.
The leader of the Chicago police union Michael Shields has been suspended after he accused other union leaders of colluding with City Hall to fix contract arbitrations.
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