Champaign – NTUI President Jim Tobin held a press conference in Champaign on May 5, 2009 to oppose Gov. Quinn’s tax increases. The Conference was covered by all 4 Champaign TV networks. This was NTUI’s most successful Champaign news conference in over 30 years, fresh on the heels of our most well-attended Rockford conference!
May 4, 2009
An Open Letter To Members of the Illinois State legislature:
Dear Illinois Legislator:
I am a non-union teacher at Harold L. Richards High School in Oak Lawn. This Wednesday, thousands of my union colleagues will take the day off and descend en masse on Springfield for the Illinois Education Association’s annual Lobby Day. This year’s major goal is to browbeat you into supporting a massive state income tax increase, to throw even more taxpayer dollars into teacher pensions. The teachers-cum-lobbyists will couch their self-serving pleas in altruistic rhetoric, but their goals have nothing to do with the quality of classroom instruction–or they would be in the classroom on Wednesday providing it!
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