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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on September 22, 2011, 01:54:20 PM
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alp227 (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-22-11 01:24 PM
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23 Chicago union leaders get $56 million in pensions
"Law gives huge pension perks to union leaders" by Jason Grotto, Chicago Tribune:
All it took to give nearly two dozen labor leaders from Chicago a windfall worth millions was a few tweaks to a handful of sentences in the state's lengthy pension code.
The changes became law with no public debate among state legislators and, more importantly, no cost analysis.
Twenty years later, 23 retired union officials from Chicago stand to collect about $56 million from two ailing city pension funds thanks to the changes, a Tribune/WGN-TV investigation found.
Because the law bases the city pensions on the labor leaders' union salaries, they are reaping retirement benefits that far outstrip the modest salaries they made as city employees. On average, their pensions are nearly three times higher than what the typical retired city worker receives.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1985613
postulater (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-22-11 02:18 PM
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4. This is the kind of crap that most anti-union workers complain about.
(the ones I know of anyway)
This is the kind of crap that every union member should complain about.
frazzled (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-22-11 02:35 PM
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5. The follow-up front-page story was published today
Taking one of these fellows, who is earning $158,000 a year in city pension by hiring him for 1 day in 1994 and then giving him an indefinite leave of absence. (The story gets worse from there.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-pension...
These two articles represent a formidable piece of investigative journalism (the kind the Tribune USED to do but has not for quite a few years). City workers--who earn an average $29,000 pension after years and years on the job--should be up in arms over the backroom deals these guys cut with the Daley administration while their pensions are at risk. It's all very fascinating.
Union leadership has been corrupt for decades and tied to corrupt Dem politicians.
DrunkenBoat (364 posts) Thu Sep-22-11 02:38 PM
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6. Chicago is trying to screw rank & file union members again. The pols would know about these particu
lar pensioners -- it's the same crooks they work with to screw the little people.
The Dem pols are in the pockets of the unions.
Township75 (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-22-11 02:48 PM
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8. Stories like this will make Scott Walker popular.
Not just Walker, but his policies. :-)
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Dreamer Tatum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-22-11 02:57 PM
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11. Get yer defenses and redirections here
"But Goldman Sachs (fill in blanks)!!!"
"Meanwhile, the Bush Cabal goes unpunished."
"The source is a well-known RW source."
"Take your RW talking points elsewhere."
"I'll believe it when I see it."
"So? They probably deserve it."
:lmao:
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:lmao:
:rofl:
I wonder if the Tater is an SDuderstat sock.
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:rofl:
I wonder if the Tater is an SDuderstat sock.
No. DT is Skinner's sock. He does that to keep post counts and views high so he can sell more advertising. Simple marketing ...
KC
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Hey one Chicago official got a 158k pension for working ONE DAY. Saw it on drudge a while ago.
And democrappers wonder why this country is going bankrupt.
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Hey one Chicago official got a 158k pension for working ONE DAY. Saw it on drudge a while ago.
And democrappers wonder why this country is going bankrupt.
I say **** Chicago and Illinois. If they need the tax base to pay all of their huge pension commitments, let them tax all the dead people that manage to vote for Dems every election.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-pensions-gannon-20110922,0,913026.story
Here's the link. Worked one day, get a $158,000 per year pension for life. WTF. :bird:
Basically, he worked one day, then took a leave of absence to take a job working for the unions, earning another salary while working there.
So, I need to take a day off of work, fly to Chicago, get hired, then take a leave of absense to return to work here, and I get $158,000 a year? Boy am I stupid!
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Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-22-11 02:54 PM
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10. You mean there are crooked union leaders? The devil you say,
CAN'T be true.
This is beyond WTF, I don't even know what to say. This money comes out of the city budget. What are Chicagoans going to do? When will they dismantle the machine? When even the DUmp is pissed off, union or not, you know it's bad. They need a Bell, CA moment.
BTW, this
"Take your RW talking points elsewhere."
pisses me off every time the DUmmies say it. How ostrich-like can you get? You can't even discuss something? You can't even bear to hear it if it makes you the least bit troubled? Living that way, wouldn't one get blindsided by unpleasant shit on a daily basis?
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Unions are 45% of what is destroying the middle class and the American Dream. The other 45% is the politicians that unions pay for.
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postulater (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-22-11 02:18 PM
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4. This is the kind of crap that most anti-union workers complain about.
ya think?
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Hmmmm.
One notices that Don, the grouchy old primitive, is absent from that campfire.
Now, my good friend Don isn't one of these United Autoworkers who'd benefit from any of these stratospheric pensions, but he's been a stalwart supporter of the system that makes them possible, ever since he first started voting forty years ago.
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Unions are 45% of what is destroying the middle class and the American Dream. The other 45% is the politicians that unions pay for.
45% + 45% = 90%
The other 10%???
JOOOOOOOOS!!!!!!!
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45% + 45% = 90%
The other 10%???
JOOOOOOOOS!!!!!!!
:tinfoil2:
Well, of course, that is a given.
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Dreamer Tatum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-22-11 02:57 PM
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11. Get yer defenses and redirections here
How pathetic. They admit how ****ed this is and their response is to redirect. Way to stand up for your principles there Tater!
Cindie