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When bipartisan majorities in the General Assembly voted to repeal the guarantee of affordable health insurance for state and university retirees, they agreed it would be subject to collective bargaining. But SB 3919 goes back on that promise.
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Senate passes SB 1313; bill goes to governor
On Thursday afternoon, the Illinois Senate followed the House of Representatives in voting to approve SB 1313--legislation that effectively removes the right to affordable health care for state and state university retirees from state law. ...
AFSCME-backed candidates win SURS trustee positions
Dorinda Miller and Andrew Matthews have been elected to the State University Retirement System Board of Trustees. Both candidates were backed by AFSCME, the Illinois Education Association and the Illinois Federation of Teachers.
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ATC presidents speak out at Peoria closure hearing
At a COGFA hearing in Peoria to consider the closure of that city's Adult Transitional Center, local union presidents from the affected ATCs condemned the plan as self-defeating. With some 800 inmates headed back to prison, costs will go up, not down...
Pay Lawsuit Winds Slowly Through Courts
AFSCME's lawsuit against the state of Illinois for its failure to pay negotiated wage increases to state employees continues to move forward on the long path through the legal system. The case has been in Cook County Circuit Court since July 2011....
AFSCME: Parole cuts will hurt public safety
"It is completely irresponsible for the administration to ...be contemplating a reduction in parole staff," Council 31 Regional Director Eddie Caumiant told the Southern. "They'll be putting every citizen in Illinois at more risk than they are today....
Unwarm unwelcome for Indiana governor
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, champion of the first right-to-work-for less law in the industrial North, ventured into Champaign to tout his anti-union, anti-government approach to state government. Thousands of union members unwelcomed him....
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