CTU will continue to fight with the mayor over the next two weeks. Whether they actually walk out remains to be seen. But their behavior has already revealed what union power politics is all about – and who pays the price.
Voters statewide will decide whether 4,757 Lincoln Park taxpayers should send $138 million in additional income taxes to Springfield.
Voters statewide will decide whether 644 Lake Bluff taxpayers should send $17 million in additional income taxes to Springfield.
Voters statewide will decide whether 2,566 Lake Zurich taxpayers should send $49 million in additional income taxes to Springfield.
East St. Louis already faces a $2.2 million state funding diversion for its firefighters pension fund. Now the police pension board is demanding $1.79 million the city owes that fund.
Voters statewide will decide whether 2,728 Northbrook taxpayers should send $58 million in additional income taxes to Springfield.
Property tax collections for Chicago Public Schools have grown nearly twice as fast as the typical Chicago household income.
Voters statewide will decide whether 1,330 Campton Hills taxpayers should send $24 million in additional income taxes to Springfield.
Educators across the state are exercising their rights, with 12,000 fewer public school employees sending dues or fees to teachers unions today than before the Janus v. AFSCME ruling.
The lawmaker who carried to the governor’s desk an infrastructure plan that doubled the state’s gas tax used his influence as a powerful state lawmaker to land his son a government job, a lawsuit alleges.
Voters statewide will decide whether nearly 2,300 southern Naperville and Aurora taxpayers should send $30 million in additional income taxes to Springfield.
After rejecting an offer based on the recommendations of a neutral third-party report, Illinois’ largest teachers union voted to walk out on their students as soon as Oct. 7.