Illinois Democrats are going after teachers' pensions, collective bargaining, tenure.

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An education blogger lists the names of those Democrats who are voting against the right of teachers to have those things.

From May 14.

Here is the list of Illinois State Reps, Democrats from Chicago, who voted to take away Chicago teachers’ right to strike and Illinois teachers’ right to seniority.

1 Susana Mendoza Democratic Chicago
2 Edward Acevedo Democratic Chicago
3 Luis Arroyo Democratic Chicago
4 Cynthia Soto Democratic Chicago
5 Kenneth Dunkin Democratic Chicago
6 Esther Golar Democratic Chicago
7 Karen Yarbrough Democratic Maywood
8 LaShawn Ford Democratic Chicago
9 Arthur Turner Democratic Chicago
10 Annazette Collins Democratic Chicago
11 John Fritchey Democratic Chicago
12 Sara Feigenholtz Democratic Chicago
13 Greg Harris Democratic Chicago
14 Harry Osterman Democratic Chicago
15 John C. D’Amico Democratic Chicago
16 Lou Lang Democratic Skokie
17 Daniel Biss Democratic Evanston
18 Robyn Gabel Democratic Evanston
19 Joseph M. Lyons Democratic Chicago
21 Michael J. Zalewski Democratic Chicago
22 Michael Madigan Democratic Chicago
23 Daniel J. Burke Democratic Chicago
24 Elizabeth Hernandez Democratic Cicero
25 Barbara Flynn Currie Democratic Chicago
26 William D. Burns Democratic Chicago
31 Mary E. Flowers Democratic Chicago
32 Andre Thapedi Democratic Chicago
33 Marlow H. Colvin Democratic Chicago
34 Constance A. Howard Democratic Chicago
35 William Cunningham Democratic Chicago
36 Kelly M. Burke Democratic Evergreen Park
37 Kevin A. McCarthy Democratic Orland Park
39 Maria Antonia Berrios Democratic Chicago
40 Deb Mell Democratic Chicago

And there is another post pointing out that the Illinois Democrats are going after pensions of teachers.

Democrats are going after teacher pensions in Illinois.

Democratic Speaker of the Illinois House Michael Madigan has teamed with GOP leader Tom Cross. Their immediate goal is to pass a three-tier pension system that would break a decades old promise to teachers and violate the state Constitution.

Their ultimate aim is to end public pensions in the state.

Their ultimatum to the teachers? If you don’t like it, tough. We’ll see you in court.

The game plan was hatched by the corporate honchos in the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago and in the swanky offices of the Tribune Tower.

Here is a post from the comment section by the blogger about the possible path to passage.

I have been told conflicting things. As my posts have shown. But what I understand now is that if the House passes it, it will go back to the Senate. Unlike the Democrats in the House, Senate Democrats have said the will not vote for a bill that their caucus lawyer says is unconstitutional. But this is Illinois. And Springfield. So nothing is true until it is signed, sealed and delivered.

I have also been told that if it passes the House and the Senate, and then if Quinn breaks his word and signs it, it will be in court for several years. Costing millions of dollars.

This is education reform. It is education done in the cheapest way possible.

The worst part is that it is being done in a bipartisan way.