Posted on 12/30/2022 6:50:06 AM PST by Rusty0604
Backed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Amendment 1 is a change to the Illinois Constitution that enshrines long-term employment contracts for government workers, multi-year salary increases, lifetime pensions, the power to strike, and much more. It also places no limits on subjects that can be included in the collective bargaining process. Under the amendment, any effort by state lawmakers to change or reform these privileges would be hopeless because they’d be backed by the state’s constitution.
So while crime skyrockets in the neighborhoods, test scores plummet in the public schools, and inflation decimates private-sector paychecks, the Illinois public employee class keeps living the good life. With Amendment 1, the good life only stands to get better. Life for taxpayers, however, will continue getting worse until they elect leaders willing to make tough choices to keep their state solvent. First among them must be offering voters a constitutional mulligan.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The examples get wackier the deeper you dig. Elsewhere in Chicago, 378 bus drivers made between $100,000 and $242,812. Street light repairmen made up to $196,123. Who knew a city sign painter was worth $145,341? The auto pound boss cleared $124,783.
Venezuela here we come.
This is how NJ was destroyed; the gubmint worker caste is the upper middle class, the political caste is the upper class, and everyone else slaves away to pay and provide benefits for them. It doesn’t work as employers and their employees flee to greener pastures; now our leaders in NJ openly proclaim our economic future is reliant on legalized sports gambling and weed.
That’s been being said for years.
Looks like they got a boost to kick the can down the road faster.
That is not sustainable......................
Dogs, Pigs and Sheep.
Right - but the national elites haven’t stopped the sheep from fleeing through holes in the pasture fence.
Kinda a neat way to use public funds to buy lots and lots of reliable votes and election workers. To say our election system is not broken is perhaps one of the biggest jokes in this century.
That happened years ago
It’s all about a bribe for a vote you should see the waste in the California teachers union some 4th grade teachers make over 100K a year with all the medical perks.................
Loop the money is the game they are big donors to the democrat party
Public employees should never have been given allowed to unionize. Even the socialist FDR opposed such an idea.
This is from a letter written by FDR in 1937:
“All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.
Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that ‘under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government.’”
I’m partial to the story of the teachers union rep who got a full teacher’s pension after teaching a grand total of one day in a classroom as a substitute. Pension based on his union salary of course.
.......with an ever shrinking tax base Illinois seems to leading blue states in the race to be the first to experience a form of martial law.
When you can’t pay law enforcement, firemen, EMT’s, judges, court staffs and jailers due to bouncing checks, there is NO CHOICE.
Illinois, California and New York are busy proving that a Republican form of government does not work as practiced in Deep Blue States. Until Marxists Liberal Socialist’s can prove they can govern effectively, they will have to live under martial law.
I worked as CFO for a public employees union in California for 10 years. That was my first exposure to how they work. I learned why government employees should not be able to unionize.
Even FDR could see that.
As long as there are corporations dumb enough to located under the state of IL tax thumb the system goes on. Chicago is a great place to work, but do not try to live there. Luckly like NYC there are plenty of options to commute from other states and tax districts.
government employees should not be able to unionize.
Agree JFK made that happen it sucked in many democrat voters and now look at the mess we have.
Yeah sane folks need to bail on places like NJ, Ill, and Cal.
Probably should have when real estate was easy to move.
Thank a little-known 1964 Scotus decision:
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