In today's News-Gazette the IEA is growling once again, and Pat Quinn is de-clawed and in a corner with his tail between his legs on his pension plan that would include cutting down pension amounts for new state workers. Naturally, any plan that puts the well-being of the public before the well-being of the teacher unions has made their hair stand up.

As has been previously posted on this dog blog, the unions were more than happy to put us all in the current mess by contributing unmatched quantities to the Blago boys club. This is particularly ironic when Ed Geppart rhetorically asked the crowd if Quinn was "an improvement?" (This was the same man that Blago personally appointed to the IL Board of Education in 2005).


With thousands of dollars to spare for indicted felons, why do the IFT and IEA insist that we must pay the penalty (and the bill)?

In other union-sponsored teacher statutory rape news, the L.A. Times reports that in addition to wasting away taxpayer-squeezed legal monies, the unions are paying teachers to sit on all fours and do nothing while waiting for misconduct trials and hearings to be resolved.

Posted by Hound No. 4