Haake v. TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL GLENBARD

This case presents the question of whether a school board can decrease the health insurance benefits provided to retirees under certain collective bargaining agreements, after the expiration of those agreements. On January 22, 2009, the trial court entered judgment in favor of the plaintiffs here (all retired teachers) on that issue. The school board appeals, raising various arguments that the collective bargaining agreements did not grant retiree benefits that survived the expiration of those agreements, or else that the agreements were validly modified by later agreements, at least as to…