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"Pension reform on the backs of working families is unconscionable and unconstitutional," said Michael Carrigan, president of the Illinois AFL-CIO.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-11-08/news/ct-met-illinois-pension-reform-20111109_1_teacher-pensions-pension-abuses-pension-costs

"In other action, the panel approved a bill that would rescind a 2007 law that allowed lobbyists Steven Preckwinkle and David Piccioli of the Illinois Federation of Teachers to get in line for sizable state teacher pensions. They merely had to work a single day as substitute teachers. They had no prior teaching experience, prompting sponsoring Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, to call their arrangement "obscene.""

In this case "sizable" means these union lobbyists with no prior teaching experience will qualify for Illinois teacher's pensions which can be expected to total over a million dollars each.

"The bill is so blatantly unconstitutional on its face that Mr. Preckwinkle and Mr. Piccioli think it merits no other comment," said David Ormsby, the lobbyists' spokesman.