In 2013, SEIU Healthcare Illinois-Indiana spent a total of $1.5 million on such things as hotels, air travel, rental cars, and restaurants and catering. These “extras” represent the money of 3,092 members and nonmembers, or 3.3 percent of the union’s total membership.
Are you a state worker in Illinois who’s tired of being forced to give part of every paycheck to a government union you don’t support?
House Speaker Mike Madigan received more than $1.1 million since 2002 from the state’s five major public unions.
Illinois’ economy is floundering, and conditions will get worse without decisive action.
The flier has nothing to do with wages and benefits earned by state employees, or how their contract is enforced.
SEIU officials are telling caregivers they will lose all benefits, including health insurance and the Medicaid stipend that helps them care for their loved ones, should they opt out of paying union dues, according to training attendees.
State police have been threatening staffers from Illinois Policy with arrest because the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, doesn't want us to tell home-based caregivers about their rights.
Mandatory training sessions for Illinois caregivers are little more than union membership drives.
What could be a lively debate among educators has become a dull monologue directed by entrenched union officials. Teachers unions have a lot to learn from other professional groups.
Union recruiters have been relentless in making sure that caregivers get to hear the union’s pitch.
Anti-Rauner PAC got nearly 90 percent of its funding from government-employee unions
The Quinn administration ordered that all caregivers must attend a training session hosted by SEIU in order to continue receiving Medicaid benefits.
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Waukegan Public Schools have been closed for more than three weeks because of a teacher strike called by the Lake County Federation of Teachers. At this point, the acrimony between the union and the administration must be severe; and the children who attend the district’s schools, along with a lot of teachers, are stuck in...