Union leaders pull down millions in public pensions

The Southern reports:

Illinois taxpayers are on the hook to make sure union officials' six-figure pensions keep flowing for years to come.

Former employees of the National Education Association, or NEA, Illinois Education Association, or IEA, Illinois Federation of Teachers, or IFT, and Illinois Association of School Boards, or IASB, drawing pensions have collected more than $47 million from the Illinois Teachers' Retirement System, or TRS, to date.

"The union leaders who are not government workers are draining millions of dollars from the hard working rank-and-file public employee's pension system each year. This is flat out unacceptable for taxpayers and for public employees," said Adam Andrzejewsk, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor and now runs his own group, For the Good of Illinois, a nonprofit that calls for "limited, accountable and transparent government."

Working class heroes.