The Executive Board of Local 3486 wishes you a happy and prosperous thanksgiving day! May your travels be safe and your gatherings festive!
What do you get when you have the following? A pending unfair labor practice. A 2010 passed budget. A .5 of 1% tax cut. 12 county administrators who can’t wait the flex their new found muscles. A defiant county president. A county presidential veto. Election season. The holidays quickly approaching and a room full of [...]
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(From the pages of the Chicago Tribune…Did you see this?)
Cook County Board passes budget with no tax increases
The Cook County Board tonight (November 19th) passed a $3 billion budget for next year that holds the line on taxes.
The spending plan commissioners signed off on at a special meeting includes a recently-approved cut in the county [...]
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(From the Channel 2 News…Shown during the 6pm newscast)
Yearly Drain On Resources Comes From Doctors In Other Areas Sending Patients To Cook County
Aurora housewife Bushra Ayaz has colon cancer. She’s now being treated at Stroger Hospital, because, when she sought treatment at hospitals in DuPage and Kane counties, they declined because she has no health [...]
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County out $14K for toilet paper injury
Cook County taxpayers will write a $14,022 check to a custodian who claims she twice injured her back by “reaching around to pick up a piece of toilet paper,” according to county documents. Once in October 1997 and March 1998.
More than 1,000 county workers file workers compensation claims each [...]
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(From the pages of the Daily Herald…)
Chief judge of Cook County Circuit Court to be honored today
“Don’t resolve your dispute in the street, bring it to court.”
Judge Timothy C. Evans has spent the better part of his professional career championing that point of view, first as a litigator and assistant corporate counsel for the city [...]
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(From the pages of the Chicago Tribune…Like we didn’t see this one coming!!!)
Cook County commissioners voted yet again Tuesday to cut back a controversial sales tax increase, setting up a possible legal showdown with Board President Todd Stroger that could keep the volatile issue alive through next year’s elections.
If it holds, the latest attempt would [...]
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WE ALL HAVE A BIG STAKE IN STATE BUDGET BATTLE
RAISING STATE REVENUES WOULD HELP LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TOO
Cities, counties and school districts all across Illinois are facing budget shortfalls—and their employees are the ones getting squeezed.
In Madison County, Peoria, Rockford, DeKalb County—and many points in between—AFSCME members who work for local governments find themselves facing demands [...]
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This morning the County Board voted to cut the sales tax increase in half. Five commissioners stepped up to the plate and voted against the cut. They were Commissioners Butler, Simms, Moreno , Beavers and Murphy. Unfortunately, because the legislature voted to modify [...]
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