Illinois Governor Pat Quinn delivered his first budget address to the General Assembly on March 18. He called for a much-needed income tax increase, but asked public employees to bear the brunt of cuts to address the state's burgeoning $11.6 billion deficit. Email your legislators today to urge them to oppose changes to public pension systems.

THE CHANGE YOU SEEK

“Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with but ahead of it.”
        --Marshall McLuhan


    What an exciting time to be a part of the teacher union movement here in Local 1274.  We have exciting and activist new leadership in the AFT; the opportunity to elect more education friendly legislators in our Illinois assembly and senate in November; the need to create and wage a fierce campaign to defeat the ConCon; and the chance to make history and elect Barack Obama and Joe Biden, thus starting to reverse eight long years of terrible education policy (NCLB anyone?) and awful antiunion labor policy, among legions of other serious problems.

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