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Offline formerlurker

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40,000 Illinois State Workers To Get 14% Payraises
« on: July 10, 2010, 07:19:17 AM »
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40,000 Illinois State Workers To Get 14% Payraises
Updated: Wednesday, 07 Jul 2010, 1:10 PM CDT
Published : Tuesday, 06 Jul 2010, 10:23 PM CDT

By Mike Flannery, FOX Chicago News

Springfield, Ill. - More than 40,000 unionized state workers got a pay raise last Thursday, bringing to 7 percent the amount they're gotten since last year. These same state employees are in line for another 7 percent by next July 1, all at a cost of a half-billion tax dollars a year.

It's more than the virtually bankrupt state can afford, and some Republican lawmakers say the raises need to be rolled back.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/illinois-state-workers-payraises-20100706
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Re: 40,000 Illinois State Workers To Get 14% Payraises
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2010, 07:57:48 AM »
Spend spend spend, they'll just get federal stimupork to pay for it.
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Re: 40,000 Illinois State Workers To Get 14% Payraises
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2010, 07:59:55 AM »
And let's not forget that for every dollar they get in payraises, their pensions go up how many more down the road?
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Re: 40,000 Illinois State Workers To Get 14% Payraises
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2010, 04:41:08 PM »
Quinn recently 47 members of his staff pay raises ranging from 11 to 15 %, I believe.
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