![]() ![]() The average AFSCME worker receives the ObamaCare equivalent of platinum-level benefits, but only pays the equivalent of bronze-level insurance premiums. In addition to paying state workers the highest salaries in the nation, Illinois taxpayers also subsidize a majority of AFSCME workers’ Cadillac health care benefits. AFSCME workers receive Cadillac health care benefits.During that same period, median private-sector earnings in Illinois remained virtually flat. Median AFSCME worker salaries increased more than 40 percent from 2005 to 2014, reaching more than $62,800. Moreover, state AFSCME workers have received salary increases not matched in Illinois’ private sector. Illinois pays its state workers more than $59,000 a year, far more than its neighbors and nearly $10,000 more than the national average. Illinois state workers are the highest-paid state workers in the country when adjusted for cost of living. Illinois state workers are the highest-paid state workers in the country.Here are four facts about state-worker compensation the union doesn’t want taxpayers to know: Those additional demands would come on top of the costly benefits that AFSCME workers already receive. They’re seeking four-year raises ranging from 11.5 to 29 percent, overtime after 37.5 hours of work per week, five weeks of vacation and enhanced health care coverage. Union leaders are demanding $3 billion in additional salary and benefits for union members in a new contract. AFSCME wants the current contract dealings turned over to unelected arbitrators who are likelier to decide in the union’s favor.ĪFSCME wants to remove the governor from contract negotiations because union officials know Rauner will not agree to outrageous demands. The union supports House Bill 580, which would strip the governor of his ability to negotiate. Bruce Rauner – who actually represents taxpayers’ interests – from labor contract negotiations. Now the union is working overtime to remove Gov. That’s how AFSCME workers have become some the highest-compensated state workers in the nation. Illinois’ former governors cared more about appeasing the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees than protecting the taxpayers the governors were supposed to represent. This is a guest post from Ted Dabrowski at the Illinois Policy Institute, of which I am a senior fellow.įor years, Illinois taxpayers haven’t been represented at the bargaining table between Illinois’ largest government union and the state. Yet, despite the fact that Illinois is for all practical purposes insolvent, the AFSCME union demands four-year raises ranging from 11.5 to 29 percent, overtime after 37.5 hours of work per week, five weeks of vacation and enhanced health care coverage. ![]()
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