{"id":468717,"date":"2010-03-24T22:45:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T02:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2010-03-24T22:45:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T02:45:50","slug":"pension-bill-passes-%e2%80%93-focus-turns-to-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/468717","title":{"rendered":"Pension bill passes \u2013 Focus turns to revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"590\" height=\"364\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/hKkGgdCcSgA%2Em4v\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"590\" height=\"364\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/hKkGgdCcSgA%2Em4v\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/3392081\">Watch a brief video message from President Ken Swanson.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/3392081\"><\/a>Illinois Education Association President Ken Swanson Wednesday blasted the Illinois House and Senate for passing a pension bill that reduces benefits for future participants in the state\u2019s pension systems, including the Teachers\u2019 Retirement System (TRS) and the State University Retirement System (SURS).<\/p>\n<p>The passage of SB 1946 came over the objections of the entire Illinois labor community. The bill&#8217;s proponents claimed it was needed to protect the state\u2019s bond rating which was endangered by the poor business practices of the General Assembly and past governors.<\/p>\n<p>President Swanson called on Gov. Pat Quinn to veto the bill, but that seems unlikely since Quinn had raised the bond rating as a key issue.<\/p>\n<p>Swanson pointed out that lawmakers will go on their spring break next week and he urged IEA members to contact them at their home offices and \u201cLet them know how you feel about this pension bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that they have taken this action, they must act to address the revenue crisis in Illinois by passing a tax increase,\u201d Swanson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA one percent increase for education is not appropriate.\u00a0 This state\u2019s problems, in education and human services, demand a more significant revenue bill, such as HB 174.\u00a0 That\u2019s got to be the next step for this General Assembly and this governor,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch a brief video message from President Ken Swanson. Illinois Education Association President Ken Swanson Wednesday blasted the Illinois House and Senate for passing a pension bill that reduces benefits for future participants in the state\u2019s pension systems, including the Teachers\u2019 Retirement System (TRS) and the State University Retirement System (SURS). The passage of SB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}