From the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office:
Assistant State’s Attorney Michelle Courier Featured Speaker at Illinois Public Employer Labor Relations Association Conference
Patrick D. Kenneally, McHenry County State’s Attorney, is proud to recognize Deputy Chief Michelle Courier for her work as a featured speaker at a recent Illinois Public Employer Labor Relations Association Conference.
Michelle spoke to new supervisors on various employment laws that impact public employers and the supervisors’ duties and responsibilities under these laws.
This is the second time that Michelle was invited to speak to this group on this topic and the only attorney on the panel to address this group.
Her involvement recognizes her outstanding knowledge and expertise in this very complicated area of law.
Quit running puff pieces for Kenneally.
He doesn’t deserve space here.
–Until he resigns as the Miller Crime Family’s shielder, and Jack Franks’ poodle-pet.
too many bureaucrats, giving speeches on how to screw the taxpayer at every opportunity
Good one Ma!
Please pen some more poems!
Although I’m amazed by the talent, I like the comments more than the poems by OldMaBarker.
Besides does LyingJackFranks deserve rent free time in Ma’s head?
The biggest problem with public sector labor relations in Illinois,
is also the biggest problem in public sector financial reporting,
and is also the biggest problem with the state legislators hiking pension and retiree healthcare benefits,
and is also the biggest problem in annual budgeting.
That being, the pension funding status (percent funded) is not easily and clearly portrayed to a wide audience during these processes to non financial experts.
The experts understand the problem and say the data is present.
But look at the result, which is ridiculously underfunded pensions and retiree healthcare.
One result, and not the sole contributing factor, is underfunded pensions are not taken into account during annual budgeting, collective bargaining negotiations, administrator contract negotiations, annual financial reporting, and the state legislative process of creating new laws.
The underfunded pensions are too far decoupled (separate) from these processes.
Many results have occurred.
For instance, salaries are artificially jacked up in collective bargaining agreements and administrator contracts even though the pensions are already underfunded.
Despite improvements, the annual employer financial reports do not clearly and easily reflect this problem as indicated in the Truth in Accounting testimony to the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) on March 5, 2019.
youtube.com/watch?v=xhELae6rbkM
This occurred for decades and the result is massive interest costs on the unfunded pension and retiree healthcare liabilities.
That resulted in hiked pension and retiree healthcare unfunded liabilities.
As a result, sooner or later comes some combination of hikes, cuts and changes (tax hikes, fee hikes, government service cuts, employee pension benefit cuts, employee retiree healthcare cuts, lower salary hikes, layoffs, retiree pension cuts, retiree healthcare cuts, remove the sentence from the state constitution, etc.).
Decades of games have resulted in massive debt and there are no good answers.
The Illinois Pension Scam.
The Illinois Retiree Healthcare Scam.