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A Brief Summary of RTAC's Past
Legal Actions
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1926— |
First group of
compulsorily retired teachers was organized into what
is now RTAC. As a group, they took the Chicago Board
of Education to court and were subsequently reinstated
as active teachers. |
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1981— |
Sponsored the election of
the first retired trustee on the Chicago Teachers
Pension Fund. |
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1990— |
Contracted with a
Legislative Advocate (Lobbyist) to provide the most
current information on proposed legislation and to
encourage legislators to introduce legislation which
could protect and/or enhance our pensions. |
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2000— |
Established Internet web
presence to enable members, able to use computers, and
receive updated news almost instantly, including
legislative progress and the need for urgent and
immediate member action. |
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2002— |
Began a campaign to
eliminate the penalty on earned Social Security
benefits by retired public agency employees. |
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2003— |
Initiated a massive
campaign to oppose reduction of the health insurance
rebate and to seek a permanent resolution to the
funding problem. |
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2010— |
Continued the legislative
battle to protect and preserve CTPF pensions. |
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2012— |
Defeated Proposition #49,
a proposed amendment to the Illinois Constitution
which would have compromised all Illinois public
employees’ annual cost of living increases. |
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2012— |
RTAC hired a legal team
at a cost of around $90,000 which successfully
completed its role as an intervener in a seven year
court case, also known as Pay Period 13. which
protected the pensions of over 3,600 CTPF
retirees. |
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2013— |
Worked collaboratively to
defeat legislation that would have been detrimental to
our pensions and prevented continuation of ‘CPS’
Pension Holidays by having RTAC members call and
emailed their ILGA Senators. |
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2014— |
Established a ‘Legal
Defense Fund’ to engage attorneys who will work to
overturn any legislation detrimental to our pensions,
health insurance rebate and/or automatic annual
increase. |
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2016— |
RTAC achieves a
long-sought victory in the 20-year battle to restore
the pension tax levy. Passage of SB 318 brings a
measure of financial stability to the Fund,
guaranteeing a stable source of annual revenue. |
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2017— |
RTAC membership
collaborated with CTPF to persuade the ILGA to restore
the tax levy to CTPF which was diverted to CPS in
1995. |
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2017— |
RTAC leads the charge for
fair funding and pension security, educating
legislators in Springfield and fighting for the
pensions of CPS retired educators. |
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2021— |
RTAC closely monitors the
Governor Pritzker’s proposed constitutional amendment
to change the income tax structure to insure
that pension income is not going to be subject to
Illinois income tax. |
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Additional information on the activities of
RTAC's Springfield Advocates can be found in the archives of
our News Bulletins found here.
Archives of the actions taken on various bills of interest
acted upon by our State Legislature can be found here.
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