{"id":27041,"date":"2011-10-17T07:21:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T11:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27041"},"modified":"2011-10-17T07:21:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T11:21:24","slug":"illinois-unionist-to-get-12-millionyear-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27041","title":{"rendered":"Illinois unionist to get $1\/2 million\/year pension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, but it&#8217;s the military retirement system that needs reforming (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/44872639\/ns\/us_news-life\/t\/insane-even-illinois-standards-union-official-get-pensions\/?fb_ref=.TpXlyx3RhJ8.like&#038;fb_source=profile_oneline\">MSNBC<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A labor leader in Chicago is expected to receive pension payments of nearly $500,000 a year, while another could get about $438,000 a year, according to reports Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Tribune and WGN-TV, which obtained information about union pension benefits during a joint investigation, said at least eight union officials in Chicago were eligible for what were described as inflated city pensions on top of union pensions for the same period of employment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to ROS for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, but it&#8217;s the military retirement system that needs reforming (MSNBC link); A labor leader in &hellip; <a title=\"Illinois unionist to get $1\/2 million\/year pension\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27041\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Illinois unionist to get $1\/2 million\/year pension<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}