Tuesday, January 23, 2018

In 2013, Daniel Biss helped write legislation to slash pensions for hundreds of thousands of workers, earning him the lowest lifetime AFL-CIO rating of any Democrat in the Senate. Were it not for the Supreme Court stepping in and ruling Biss’ bill unconstitutional, the bill would have had a devastating effect on Illinois workers.

REALITY CHECK: 

• Daniel Biss helped write legislation to cut pensions for more than 467,000 downstate teachers, university workers, and state employees.

• Biss also voted for $1.6 billion in cuts to Medicaid and to strip some employees of collective bargaining rights.

• Biss’ attacks on working families in the General Assembly earned him a 62% lifetime rating from the AFL-CIO through 2015, the worst of any Democrat in the State Senate.

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