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- Mayor Rahm Emanuel has agreed to a deal that would give thousands of unionized city workers raises totaling 10.5 percent over the next few years, his administration announced Thursday.
The tentative deal with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31 would cover about 3,500 workers throughout city government. It still requires City Council approval, though that’s largely a formality.
The five-year contract proposal is retroactive to July 2017. It features 2.1 percent annual pay raises but also increases health care premiums and prescription deductibles, according to the Emanuel administration.
Cut it down to four years, eliminate the health care increases (Obama promised everyone free health care a few years back if we recall correctly - it should be here any day now), fix pension funding and this should breeze through a membership vote.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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Aren’t we city union workers? Sounds good to me, don’t change anything else on the contract besides the health care and the pay.
Look up what they got last time... more than us?
I'd rather wait for a better deal
I’m just going to roll up my windows and lock the doors like the police who got there before JVD did. You citizens are on your own. You are not charging me for murder for doing my job.
Obama promised affordable healthcare. Next group of Dems will be promising free healthcare.
We should match what Joliet Police get top pay over $100,000!
I'm no math whiz, so somebody, please enlighten me. What is the raise with increase the cost of healthcare and prescriptions? If the raise is little to none, why are union negotiators entertaining the offer?
Affordable healthcare? I've been retired for many years and my health insurance premiums have increased every year.
What does he care? He's leaving.
Trades are going to get 10% for 3 years and backpay
And what healthcare is Trump promising ? Still nothing, you better get a private sector job and pay into social security- medicare and strongly consider hanging on till you are 60+. Take care of your health, no smoking, limit drinking, eat properly and exercise, even if it is just walking, use trails outside of the county or city.
Don't waste money on new cars they are a gimmick, take of your car like its your body and save the money.
Another reason why Rahm parachuted
into Chicago was to help his financier
friends get their hands on one of the
last, mostly un-fucked with pots of
"other people's money."
Police Pensions...
Bundle them up as "financial vehicles,"
drive them away, sell and re-sell, make
commissions coming and going then
ultimately bust them out leaving Policemen
with nothing or pennies on the dollar.
Do your own research, there's plenty out
there regarding the vile Wall St. m/fers who
came up with this financial gambit some
10 or 15 years ago.
AFSME already made their last Rahm 2019 campaign donations (the first to do so) before his dropout announcement of course.
How?
By depleting union stash funds usually the set aside for strikes, rallies and membership hardships.
You don’t get a lame duck to settle a Contract out of worker compassion without getting something first.
Rahm hates the police - you know that already.
No FOP bargaining and likely on hold until a community inspired arbiter can take away as much as possible.
Rotten Rahm is truly a vile, rotten, lying motherfvcker.
I thought the city of Chicago was considered to be broke?
THAT SUCKS!shit raise!! on!!
Must not be that great a deal for the city or they wouldn’t have released the details in the midst of the verdict.
I want way more than 10 percent
If the liberal elite wouldn't keep taking away the law abiding citizen's ability to defend ourselves, we wouldn't need to rely solely on law enforcement. No blade over four inches! No pepper spray! No batons! No tactical hand weapons! No saps! No stun devices! No legal hand guns (note all the stickers on building doors) allowed anywhere in the city! Just wait for the police to show up and string the yellow tape.
Once again any raise that is offered is not worth a shit! Our raises never keep up with the cost of living in this city. This city sucks!!! We should be able to strike just like every other union in this city. You want to see what life is like without any police?! It would be like the movie The Purge. So all you liberals running around catering to criminals and their dirty deeds deserve the devil at your doorstep. Don't call the police anymore since you hate us. Deal with it on your own try your peace circle jerk while someone has a gun to your head.
Rahm has to make nice to the Union scum and folks and people’s who work in patronage jobs for the city. He hates police as do all the dems. They are all more interested in the south and west side feral predators who commit crimes. Anyone who votes democratic is an idiot.
That was the afscme contract. I think another union got 11 or 11.5 so hopefully you will be at or higher.
Get rid of residency and I’ll vote yes
Anonymous said...
Affordable healthcare? I've been retired for many years and my health insurance premiums have increased every year.
10/06/2018 07:03:00 AM
Rahm wants you to go to Stroger hospital as a reward for your years of service!
https://www.cookcountyclerk.com/news/cook-county-tifs-bring-record-1-billion-according-clerk-orr-transit-tif-revenue-doubled
Vote NO to any concessionary contract keep all of our job protections plus there is plenty of money abolish TIF districts!
Anonymous said...
Get rid of residency and I’ll vote yes
10/06/2018 07:24:00 PM
Residency is not going away Chicago would turn into Detroit overnight
nothing, you better get a private sector job and pay into social security- medicare and strongly consider hanging on till you are 60+. Take care of your health, no smoking, limit drinking, eat properly and exercise, even if it is just walking, use trails outside of the county or city.
Don't waste money on new cars they are a gimmick, take of your car like its your body and save the money.
Look at the deductions in your check ding dong. You are paying into Medicare already and its alot!
I’m sure their not 10% that’s the threshold point and all benifit cost go up equals no raise
the municipal pension fund was funded around 97% in 1997 or so. thanks to the two corrupt midget dictators it is now funded at around 18%. daley and the union bosses got inflated pensions from the city. all the politicians come in hungry and go out rich even convicts like jesse jr. why oh why dont the big guns ever go to the pen? all the scams the commit right in the public eye and they leave rich and they name public works after them. this " purge " you speak of, can we count on it coming here soon? the municipal pension fund is warning it will run out of money in 3-4 years, more going out every year than going in. but hey the river walk looks nice! wtf bring on the purge!
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Get rid of residency and I’ll vote yes
10/06/2018 07:24:00 PM
Residency is not going away Chicago would turn into Detroit overnight
10/06/2018 09:30:00 PM
First, Chicago is nothing like Detroit. Two different economies. Second, explain to me why 70% of retirees are still living in Chicago? Look around your neighborhood and you will see. If retirees don’t leave what makes you think all the current workers will? I know of 6-7 retirees just a few blocks around me that have not left. The large majority of people do not work for the city.
Lots of cops want to leave the job early, and I don’t blame them. Just be aware that our health insurance premiums, Medicare and 2 Aetna supplement plans cost us over $10,000 a year.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
the municipal pension fund was funded around 97% in 1997 or so. thanks to the two corrupt midget dictators it is now funded at around 18%. daley and the union bosses got inflated pensions from the city. all the politicians come in hungry and go out rich even convicts like jesse jr. why oh why dont the big guns ever go to the pen? all the scams the commit right in the public eye and they leave rich and they name public works after them. this " purge " you speak of, can we count on it coming here soon? the municipal pension fund is warning it will run out of money in 3-4 years, more going out every year than going in. but hey the river walk looks nice! wtf bring on the purge!
10/07/2018 01:01:00 AM
Agreed but here is a question who in our pension board signed off on that over 60 million given to vaneko and davis daleys family to "invest" and they lost it? I have written to the DOJ and the only response from Sessions office "we are looking into this" hopefully they are and we will get a result on who allowed "our money" to be stolen and why! Was there a payoff? the Chicago way? Just axin?
60+ million that could of really helped out the police retirees who got medical taken away by rahm and crew!
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Get rid of residency and I’ll vote yes
10/06/2018 07:24:00 PM
Residency is not going away Chicago would turn into Detroit overnight
10/06/2018 09:30:00 PM
It definitely won’t go away if we don’t try. At least make it a negotiation point
People please know the facts before you post. Joilet makes 100k at 12 years yes but they pay 12 percent into pension and 3.3 percent for insurwnce
Also to lift residency it has change in the state it is a law..stop with nonsense do you home work
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Stop crying about residency. You took the job knowing it was a stipulation so quit crying. There are far more important issues like insurance, raising COLA back up, lowering max out time, complaints, etc.
Pittsburgh did it old timmer, time for the union to finally think outside of the box a little perhaps... Theres what 10,000 of us paying dues, do a vote on raising the money to hire a firm that can take it to the supreme court and get us out of raising our kids in a city that doesnt want us here.
After the van dyke decision. I want a immediate 20% hazard pay incrase for dealing with dude and his nonsense.
economies have nothing to do with it, IT IS THE AMOUNT OF DEBT, GET IT.
Our contract is going to Arbitrarion. We could get everything we want and the City’s council will not vote to ratify. Arbitration is the only thing that is binding that the City council can’t vote down. If you think other wise you are foolish. Go to arbitration before any consent degree has oversight.
parasites had to get a raise to pay for the dips**t madigan tax increases
We need to lower the time you need to max out. Police officers get burned out after 20yrs. What they make you can hire two new officers that are full energy. Second the city is not broke. The politicians you elect manage to come up with millions in pet projects yet when it come to paying liabilities pension contributions, equipment, bills, etc. they say we are broke. Mismanagement of tax dollars and under the table business deals are destroying this city. Yet you ignorant fools keep voting these thieves in office. They are in it for themselves to see how much they can steal and then give themselves a undeserving inflated retirement package. Meanwhile our infrastructure is falling apart. City departments have equipment that needs to be replaced and is not. The list goes on.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Pittsburgh did it old timmer, time for the union to finally think outside of the box a little perhaps... Theres what 10,000 of us paying dues, do a vote on raising the money to hire a firm that can take it to the supreme court and get us out of raising our kids in a city that doesnt want us here.
First do your homework. Pittsburg won their ruling as a result of a decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Nothing to do with us. Different state, doesn’t set precedent in any state but Pennsylvania we would have to have our case decided by the Illinois Supreme Court
Recently there was a decision by our Supreme Court that ruled in favor of STATE employees regarding retiree healthcare that was protected by the constitution A big win for us. How can the Illinois Supreme Court rule for state employees and not us regarding retiree healthcare. So Kristov files a case for our retirees that mirrors that case if not an exact case regarding our healthcare being guaranteed. Case gets to the Supreme Court we figure let’s see the same court rule on similar issues for one group and not the other group. How will they be able to do that?
Guess how. They decide not to hear the case. End of story. I’m all for getting rid of residency but if we try again and get to the Supreme Court, why would they hear it when they already said they won’t hear it
Why you said it happened in pPittsburg makes no sense.
First, Chicago is nothing like Detroit. Two different economies. Second, explain to me why 70% of retirees are still living in Chicago? Look around your neighborhood and you will see. If retirees don’t leave what makes you think all the current workers will? I know of 6-7 retirees just a few blocks around me that have not left. The large majority of people do not work for the city.
Great points. Not only police but fire. I can’t tell you how many live in my neighborhood but it’s loaded. And many police and fire that are active still plan on staying after retirement
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