Retirement Security

• Miller Rodgers – UAW Local 6

  December 09, 2021: Miller Rodgers worked as an assembler, repairman, and in maintenance at the International Harvester Company diesel engine plant in Melrose Park, where he was a proud member of United Auto Workers Local 6. For more than 15 years he served as a tru...Read more >

• Jacklyn Naughton – Illinois Federation of Teachers

  October 11, 2021:   Jacklyn Naughton is the Secretary of the Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans, as well as the Retiree Chair for the North Suburban Teachers Union. She has her MS in Cellular and Molecular Biology and spent her career as a science teacher...Read more >

• Jane Russell – West Suburban Teachers Union / Illinois Federation of Teachers

  October 08, 2021: Jane Russell has been a champion for working people and public education for more than four decades. She is currently the Secretary Treasurer for the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the Secretary of the North Central Illinois Labor Council, has ...Read more >

• Charlotte Sanders – Chicago Teachers Union

  October 08, 2021: Charlotte Sanders was elected as an IARA Executive Board member at the 2021 Biennial Convention. An early childhood paraprofessional for 27 years, Charlotte continues to organize with the Chicago Teachers Union as a member of the CTU Retiree Standi...Read more >

• John Murphy – Illinois Federation of Teachers, University Professionals of Illinois Local 4100

  October 08, 2021: For 35 years, John Murphy was a professor of political science at Northwestern Illinois University.  John’s background includes  A.B (cum laude) Harvard, M.A., University of Chicago, Professor Emeritus,  Northeastern Illinois University, and...Read more >

• Stephanie Collins – Chicago Metro Retirees

  October 08, 2021: Stephanie Collins is the President of the Chicago Metro Retirees Chapter of the Alliance for Retired Americans, as well as the Chair of the Retiree Standing Committee of the Chicago Teachers Union, financial secretary for the CTU Black Caucus, and ...Read more >

• 2021 IARA Virtual Convention

  August 31, 2021:   Join grassroots leaders, activists, organizers from around the state for the 2021 Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans Biennial convention which will be held by virtually and by phone via Zoom on Wednesday September 29th starting at 10...Read more >

• Retirees Welcome Senate Budget Resolution

  August 10, 2021:   Medicare Drug Price Negotiation and New Benefits Means a More Secure Retirement for All Americans Statement by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans regarding the Budget Resolution released today: â...Read more >

• Retirees Win Key Provisions in American Rescue Plan

  August 06, 2021: In February, as the country reeled from the devastation brought on by the COVID 19 crisis, retiree leaders organized by IARA met with 7 members of the Illinois congressional delegation to urge them to include provisions important to seniors as part o...Read more >

• Seniors and Veterans Demand a Vote on the SAVE Benefits Act

  March 09, 2016: [flagallery gid=3] Today Maryland/DC Alliance member Susan Taylor spoke at an event on Capitol Hill urging the Senate to vote on S. 2251, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's SAVE Benefits Act - providing seniors a one-time payment of $581. The amount is...Read more >