I Fully Expect Defined Benefit Pensions for Teachers

and other public employees will be a thing of the past, while these crooks keep pushing worthless defined contribution plans.

Again, the whole idea of complaining about teacher pensions, which aren't that great for anybody who cannot get the fully 30 years in (and Illinois I believe is another state which "opted out" of Social Security), is just another divide-and-conquer tactic.

Then Ron Huberman was named the "Chief Executive Officer" of the Chicago Public Schools to replace Arne Duncan who left for Washington D.C. to be the Education Secretary. Huberman had just served as head of the Chicago Transit Authority where he did exactly what the state legislature passed - created a two-tier pension for the CTA workers where the young workers no longer are entitled to the same defined pension benefits and the retirement age increased.

Many believed Huberman was hired at the Board of Education to do the same thing - gut the Chicago Teachers's Pension Fund, which Huberman kept saying was one of the big reasons for the enormous $1 billion current budget deficit.

One of those who challenged Huberman's statements to the media attacking the teachers' pension was Jay Rehak, who along with Lois Ashford scored a surprising upset last fall by winning two seats on the Chicago Teachers Pension Fund Board on the CORE slate, an activist caucus that will be challenging the current CTU leadership in the upcoming May elections.