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Originally Posted by Goose Island Guru
What's stopping the government from negotiating a new deal with the unions where 100% of employees would be terminated and immediately rehired under new terms that allow alternation of unearned future benefits?
Sure, good luck having the unions agree to this, but then go ahead and terminate them all and don't rehire them. The unions know where this is going - their pensions are inevitably going to fail. You'd think they'd want to negotiate something new that locks something achievable in.
Illinois is an employment-at-will state. You can legally get fired for looking at your boss sideways.
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I'd assume what's stopping them is the law... The government made legally binding promises to those people (rightfully so or not is another discussion). But if the government is allowed to back out on a deal whenever they feel like it, then nothing matters anymore. Even with the impending debt crisis on our hands the government can't just say, "well we know we've been promising this to you for decades, but we didn't budget correctly for it so we're just not going to honor it".