Illinois Federation of Public Employees |  Local 4408
A Union of Professionals

Join the next AFT Affordability Clinics today, Tuesday, September 8, at 2:00 PM CDT on student debt and at 6:00 PM CDT on PSLF program buyback eligibility to learn the best ways to take advantage of this opportunity for qualified borrowers. Register at https://web.cvent.com/event/e9c61181-c2f6-40d4-9ce4-013f1f911889/register.

(via the IFT) Every Labor Day, we hear the simple story of how workers organized and their organizing won them rights. This is true. But it leaves out a crucial point: our rights as workers were always secured in struggle. They were won by people practicing solidarity—standing together and refusing to accept half measures. W.E.B. Du Bois teaches us this in Black Reconstruction in America. During the Civil War, enslaved Africans didn’t wait for permission to be free. They lef

Local 4408 leaders helped represent the union at the State Fair Labor Pavilion on Saturday, August 15, answering questions from the public and building solidarity with the other unions working there.

(via Democracy Forward) A federal court has ordered the Trump-Vance administration to stop its unlawful rewriting of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program as a way of silencing local governments and nonprofit organizations that do work that goes against the administration’s political agenda. The ruling comes in National Council of Nonprofits et al. v. McMahon, a case brought by a broad coalition of more than a dozen cities, labor unions, and nonprofit organizatio

The Illinois General Assembly's spring session has come to a close and SB1937, the We Are One coalition's bill to fix Tier 2, did not cross the finish line. We are disappointed. But we are not done. Tier 2 employees — the dedicated public workers who keep our state moving — have been shortchanged for too long. You do the same work as your Tier 1 colleagues, but you retire on a lesser pension that doesn't provide an adequate retirement. SB1937 would make dramatic strides to fi

THERE'S STILL TIME TO SEND YOUR LAWMAKERS A MESSAGE TODAY ABOUT THE MEGAPROJECTS BILL Dial (773) 985-7899 - you’ll be connected with your state senator and representative. Write your legislators Tell them to put our students first, prioritize funding for public schools, higher education, and community services, and raise revenue by taxing the ultra-wealthy, not further burdening working families. Tell Lawmakers: Grow and Support New Teachers -Fund the VIC/We Care Program! In