Union Pension Abuse

UPDATE: SEIU and Teamsters for our Dem governor.***At our expense. Sun Times:

City Hall's biggest pension doesn't go to a police superintendent, fire commissioner or even an alderman.

It's paid to a former steamroller operator named Dennis J. Gannon.

But Gannon's City Hall pension -- $153,649 a year -- isn't based on what he was paid as a steamroller operator and foreman for the city's Department of Streets and Sanitation.

Instead, Gannon took advantage of a little-known state law that allowed him to base his taxpayer-supported pension on his much-larger salary as president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, a private organization that represents more than 300 unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO.

Oh, and he's still working for the union. His defense? He's not the only one stealing, uh doing this.

P.S. Can you imagine what our health care bills will be with "retired" people like this robbing us blind?

And yes, we have labor unrest. Tribune editorial.