APAC and UIC UNITED, the UIC Chapter
of the State Universities Annuitants Association, collaborate to publish “UIC
Retirement Matters”, a blog focused on providing faculty and staff with timely
news stories related to retirement benefits (pension, health care, COLA,
etc). New posts include:
Video of October 22nd Town Hall on the Constitutional
Amendment
Merrill Gassman: 1:00 to +/- 7:00
John Kindt: 7:00 to +/- 20:00
Dick Lockhart: 20:00 to +/- 41:00
Audience Questions: 41:00 to End
See the video at http://tinyurl.com/8prjdur.
CA#49 Would Be
"Catastrophic" Says Law Professor Ann Lousin
The three-fifths required for
pension decisions for all local units of government, including all school
districts, imposes an unnecessary mandate on them, and I do not see how
compliance for 7,000 governmental entities could be recorded or provide any
precedent value. This issue is so immense that a new bureaucracy would have to
be hired to monitor, referee and record countless votes, meetings and issues.…[More at http://tinyurl.com/8qvrgoh]
Constitutional Amendment #49: A
‘Catastrophic’ Attack on Public Workers Says Gazette Chicago
Curtailed benefits will mean that
good public employees will be open to leaving Illinois jobs and taking their
expertise out of state. And just try attracting good workers to public and
private jobs with poor benefits. Such a one-two punch will cripple future
economic growth in Illinois…[More
at http://tinyurl.com/9azc3xy]
The Impairment Provision is Impaired
by HCA #49 says Dick Lockhart, SUAA Lobyist
Of great concern – this Proposed
Amendment appears to conflict with the existing “Impairment” provision cited
above. Which would control? ... Constitutional Amendment #49 creates very
special problems for State Universities, and for those who are committed to
their improvement…[More at http://tinyurl.com/9xeu8wo]
And our Most Popular Posts
Does “Unlucky Article XIII” on Nov.
Ballot Cheat Voters?
This Illinois Article XIII Amendment
contains more words than the entire first 10 Amendments to the U.S.
Constitution—the Bill of Rights. The obvious intent of the verbose Illinois
Article XIII Amendment is to hide its true impacts from voters in a 700-word avalanche
of unnecessary and deceptive words.…[More
at http://tinyurl.com/9cx4g93]
HJRCA49 Creates New Problems,
Doesn't Address Current Problems says UIC UNITED
On November 6, the citizens of
Illinois will be asked to vote on a proposal to amend the State constitution.
The changes wrought by this Constitutional Amendment 49 would affect every
local government, every school district, every State university, and every
community college… If approved, it would have a profound and long-lasting
effect.…[More at http://tinyurl.com/97pjyyn]
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