SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ largest union of state employees announced Tuesday it has ratified a new contract with Democratic Gov.... J.B. Pritzker’s administration that includes an 18% pay hike over four years and extended parental leave. The four-year contract between the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31 and Pritzker’s administration is expected to cost taxpayers about$ 625 million, an increase of about$ 200 million from the previous contract, according to P

“ Government employees are frustrated and worry that with a third term things get worse, not better.... Flanked by council members and union leaders, Bowser was jovial at the time: “ This is a good agreement, isn’t it?... ” she said, calling it “ an exciting announcement" and singing the praises of union members’ hard work through the pandemic....

Illinois’ largest state employee union has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, the union said. The two sides came to agreement in the hours after the union’s previous contract expired at the end of June. Advertisement Representatives of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31, which represents thousands of state workers ranging from corrections officers to public health employees, declined to provide details on the tentative pact, which has to go

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The staff voted to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a public service union that also represents staff at museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.... The contract will also raise the wage floor from the city’s$ 15.80 minimum wage to$ 17 immediately and to$ 18 in 2025, according to Lindall.... Shortly before reaching a tentative agreement with the museum at the end of July, the union began raising mone

It has launched a search for the proverbial needle in the haystack, without any concrete knowledge that the needle is actually in the haystack," she wrote.... " Instead, the government simply repeats its incantation of a need to modernize the system and uncover fraud.... Its method of doing so is tantamount to hitting a fly with a sledgehammer." Two people enter a Social Security Administration office in suburban Detroit, March 7, 2025....

J.B. Pritzker’s office issued a release late Thursday asking hospitals to postpone nonemergency procedures and take any other measures possible to free up beds in anticipation of a post-holiday, omicron-driven surge and potential shortage of staffed intensive-care beds.Lt.... If you have yet to do so, please get vaccinated, your booster and wear a mask.... Illinois has also reached a daily average of 18, 321 for the week ending Thursday, also a record high....