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Illinois bill would give unions platform for indoctrination in Illinois schools

By Mailee Smith
01/15/2024
House Bill 4417 requires an annual “Workplace Readiness Week” in all Illinois high schools, which focuses not on getting kids ready for jobs but on the labor movement’s role in the workplace.

TAGS: education, government unions, ILGA: Illinois General Assembly

Illinois government unions celebrate Labor Day with 36,000 fewer members

By Mailee Smith
08/31/2023
Labor Day this year leaves Illinois government unions fewer members to celebrate with. It appears to be the unions’ own fault. Over 36,000 workers have distanced themselves since 2017.

TAGS: government unions

Pritzker signs bill allowing Chicago Public Schools principals to unionize

By Mailee Smith
02/11/2023
Chicago Public Schools principals already make nearly 30% more than their peers in the rest of the state. A newly signed law allows them to unionize and push for even more.

TAGS: government unions

Illinois families spend 3rd-highest in nation on government pensions

By Patrick Andriesen
01/09/2023
The typical career state pensioner earns more in retirement than Illinoisans do working. Households now pay over three times more than they did nearly two decades ago to cover the costs.

TAGS: government unions, Illinois, pensions

Illinois labor board says government unions cannot discriminate against nonmembers

By Mailee Smith
11/30/2022
Illinois government unions wrote the law that gives them a monopoly over all government employees in a unionized workplace. And that means they can’t discriminate against workers who choose not to be members.

TAGS: government unions, ILRB: Illinois Labor Relations Board

Don’t give power over your taxes to some big government union bosses

By Brad Weisenstein
10/27/2022
Illinois voters are faced with a change to the Illinois Constitution that would give government union bosses the power to essentially decide how high taxes should go. That’s not how democracy should work.

TAGS: Amendment 1, government unions

Illinois’ public pension mess shows threat of unchecked government union power

By Joe Tabor
09/14/2022
For 52 years the Illinois Constitution’s pension protection clause has locked the state into retirement promises it cannot afford. Amendment 1 could do the same for government union demands, handing taxpayers the bill.

TAGS: government unions, pensions

9% of Illinois government workers quit unions as more dues spent on politics

By Mailee Smith
08/31/2022
Illinois government unions admit spending very little on representing workers – the core purpose of a union. Maybe that’s why so many government workers are leaving the unions. Now government union bosses want taxpayers to pay for union failures.

TAGS: government unions

Amendment 1 would drive up cost of government, meaning higher taxes

By Mailee Smith
08/25/2022
Amendment 1 would allow government unions to make demands outside the normal scope of bargaining. Those demands would come at a cost – to taxpayers.

TAGS: Amendment 1, government unions, property taxes

Amendment 1 would give teachers unions more power over students’ health

08/01/2022
The number of students enrolling in Chicago Public Schools continues to fall as teachers’ unions impose COVID-19 policies and infringe on parents’ choices about their childrens’ health and safety. A ballot proposal would make that worse.

TAGS: Amendment 1, Chicago, COVID-19, CTU: Chicago Teachers Union, government unions, mask mandate, parenting, public schools, teachers union

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A city charter could bring order to Chicago’s dysfunction. How can it get one?


A city charter would put much-needed guardrails on the Chicago government. Here’s what needs to happen to get one.

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

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06/19/2014
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CBS Chicago: Illinois’ highest-paid superintendent receives $400K per year to oversee 1,200 students

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