Now, don't imagine that these sort of sweetheart deals between politicians and government unions are only happening in Chicago

Chicago: Union Members Collect Millions in Tax $$ With Sweetheart Pension Deal

- Warner Todd Huston
Friday, September 23, 2011
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Now this is the sort of corruption we are used to seeing in Illinois, eh? This week the Chicago Tribune and WGN TV has found up to 23 retired union operatives that are collecting millions in taxpayer dollars because they had pals in government tweak the state’s pensions laws to favor them.

These former government workers that were government union members got pliant politicians to alter the pensions laws to say that their pension remuneration would be calculated not on the lower pay they received when they retired from government, but from the much higher salary they received when they worked as union operatives. These folks worked as union bosses at the same time as working on the clock for government.

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