Sitemap - 2021 - Fred Klonsky in Retirement
As inflation drags on, retired teachers are big losers.
2021. Another year without peace.
Stories of sick day solidarity.
Christmas in Brooklyn entering the third plague year.
Prices rise but an Illinois teacher pension can't keep up. Plus rising Medicare costs.
I love Lucy. Aaron Sorkin? Not so much.
Naming rights. Blaming rights. The crimes of the Sackler family.
Cell phones and Amazon spying on workers.
The NLRB cell phone ban. Amazon blames the dead workers.
Teachers dash for cash but not the Pentagon.
Amazon banned cell phones and then a tornado hit the warehouse. Nobody warned the workers.
Consumer Reports exposes Amazon's warehouse racism.
Teacher pension investments in fossil fuels. Why are we focusing on Ben and Jerry's ice cream?
Student teachers should be paid.
A union at the Art Institute of Chicago and the docent controversy.
Illinois is an "existential threat to anti-abortionists."
On a day of protest 200,000 tractors filled the streets in and around Delhi.
The failure of teacher evaluation reform.
Is South Africa a victim of virus shaming?
The latest Covid variant and blocking vaccines to South Africa.
Ahmaud Arbery in Bedford, Pennsylvania.
Was John Deere strike a preview?
Sexual abuse at the Marine Academy and our neighborhood ignored.
A huge increase in Medicare costs are about to hit retirees in 2022.
QAnon shaman sentenced to over 3 years in prison for role in January 6th insurrection.
Inflation. Corporations are raising prices because they can.
John Catanzara quits. The man who gave unions a bad name now wants to be mayor of Chicago.
Most in Iowa support John Deere strikers.
John Deere got a judge to ban folding chairs at the picket line.
With inflation at 6% retired Illinois teachers taking a big pension hit.
Baby Boomers leaving the work force at a record pace.
Ken Griffin says he's moving out but is all in.
John Deere sticks to last offer. Strikers sticking to the picket line.
I taught students with autism.
Medicare and the American cost of drugs.
Protesting and greenwashing in Glasgow.
The right-wing effort to target school boards.
Yesterday was election day at Deere and NO was the big winner.
The strange logic of Judge Mitchell in his vaccine ruling defending the union rights of the FOP.
It's open enrollment and too many choices with the privatized portion of Medicare.
Time has come today. Striking for control of our lives.
An abundance of progressives. Two Illinois Latinx districts.
A guaranteed income is the best anti-violence program.
Covering up Picasso's Guernica. Colin Powell and Rahm Emanuel.
Big Pharma is the National Rifle Association of health care.
John Deere and the UAW. Driving to Moline.
The Fraternal Order of Police is in revolt against civilian authority.
The John Deere strike. A two tier pension system sounds familiar to this retired teacher.
Inflation, Social Security and the Madigan pension cap.
Teachers and students under assault.
Did you know about Hollywood's Bloody Friday?
The elderly aren't Soylent Green.
Unaffordable drug prices and kickbacks from Big Pharma.
A year after a cancer diagnosis, it's big pharma that could kill me.
Pension fund boards. Leaks and gag orders.
Ben and Jerry, our pensions and Israeli settlements.
Pennsylvania teacher pension board. Gifts from Wall Street.
Teacher union has concerns with private equity pension investment.
The Chicago Sun-Times goes after seniors, veterans and the disabled.
Park Ridge teachers get a contract. More on private equity and pensions.