Illinois cuts meager benefits for state workers
Union leader blasts move as “grand larceny”
One day after Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a new pension bill into law, a top union leader blasted the package as “grand larceny.”
Henry L. Bayer, executive director of AFSCME Council 31, said it’s outrageous that the General Assembly has chosen to cut meager benefits for state workers, while voting to hand out huge tax breaks to corporations doing business in Illinois.
“Clearly what happened this week was unconstitutional,” said Bayer, speaking during a labor relations law conference at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. “What happened this week was grand larceny.”
Read the Chicago Sun Times article. If you watch the video you have to wait until the end to hear the good stuff. May not be worth the time.