Politicians Accelerate Chicago’s Race to Ruin
Chicago's financial crisis deepens due to reckless union-backed legislation increasing pension liabilities, with leaders failing to take corrective action.
Is Chicago Doomed to Become the Next Detroit?
With CTU President Stacy Davis Gates calling the shots, taxpayer costs for Chicago schools are skyrocketing even as educational outcomes get worse and worse. But the miserable status quo works for Big Labor politicians.
Big Labor-Ruled Illinois Headed For Collapse
Year after year, Big Labor-dominated Illinois is losing taxpaying citizens to states where union bosses wield less unwarranted power. That’s now true of neighboring Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin.
Perpetual Big Labor Control Over Illinois?
Taxpayers in forced-unionism Illinois have seen their tax burdens skyrocket, their public debt liability soar, and the quality of their K-12 schools and other vital public services deteriorate.
Californians flee failed forced-unionism policies, empty state U-Haul truck supply
U-Haul reports that "Texas edged [Right to Work] Florida for the largest net gain of one-way U-Haul trucks in 2021; [ forced unionism ] California and Illinois saw the greatest net losses."
How do Illinois Union Monopolies ‘Defund’ Active Police? This is one way...
Pro-union monopoly Illinois labor policies have forced East St. Louis to slash its police force by 50%. (Credit: Paul Sableman/Wikimedia Commons) ‘Pension Crowd-Out’ Means Patrol Cutbacks in Illinois Cities Despite rapidly rising crime rates in many Illinois municipalities, urban…
Chicago Educators Push for Supreme Court Review of Anti-Janus Schemes
Plaintiff and Chicago Public Schools teacher Ifeoma Nkemdi called CTU union militants’ retaliation against her “a dishonor to the profession of education.”
‘We’re in a Very, Almost Desperate Situation’
Perhaps no other state is currently in a deeper fiscal hole than forced-unionism Illinois, where there are more than $12 billion in unfunded liabilities of local public-safety pension funds alone.
Forced Fees Pay For Big Labor Partisan Politics
‘In Practice, You Can’t Enforce the First Amendment Half-Way’ Four decades ago, when it first considered a National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-backed challenge to the constitutionality of government-sector forced unionism, the U.S. Supreme Court tried to “split the…