State workers fill Parkland room to protest pay cut proposal

CHAMPAIGN – Protesting a proposal to cut their pay to fund their pensions, hundreds of state workers filled a Parkland College hall Monday with heated debate.

Gov. Pat Quinn, who was not at the meeting, has proposed that state workers, including college and public school teachers, take a 2 percent pay cut, to be sent to the underfunded pension system.

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