"Well, bye!"
Posted on 06/11/2012 11:38:25 AM PDT by Hunton Peck
The Chicago Teachers Union says nearly 90 percent of teachers voted in favor of giving the union authorization to strike.
Union leaders say the authorization vote last week gives teachers the legal authority to call a strike in the fall and gives them added leverage at the bargaining table. State law requires 75 percent approval.
The CTU adds that more...
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Vote could push Chicago closer to teachers strike (from 6/8/2012)
Chicago teachers asking for 30% raises over next 2 years (from 2/17/2012)
It's like they're throwing a tantrum.
There are four years worth of recent grads with degrees in education who are job seekers.
With 40 people shot and 10 killed each week, who is left to teach in Chicago.
Seems like a reasonable compromise. They get to not show up and pretend to teach, and the kids, perhaps won’t have to show up and pretend to learn.
Win-win
If they DO strike I would expect student achievement scores to improve significantly.
Chicago and Illinois need a Scott Walker pronto
A few miles to the north, taxpayer-funded unions just got their shorts handed to them.
These teachers are slow learners.
I would be willing to bet that if the Chicago school districts were to start advertising right now they would have enough applicants to start several new school districts.
Unleash the urban feral into the streets of The One’s home town during the heat of the re-election campaign?
Not bright.
These teachers are a good argument for eliminating collective bargaining. They want a 30% increase over 2 years, while others are giving concessions or losing their jobs altogether. A brave mayor would fire the whole lot of them. But there is no one of authority in Chicago who will stand up to these thugs.
We need a W. Wilson Goode moment, on teachers holed up in a public building staging some sort of protest.
Getting paid to stay home is so brave and courageous. Holding children’s education hostage to their demands is equally brave and courageous. Yep, everyone admires those who get paid not to work.
You don’t understand Chicago. This is just theater to give Rahm the ability to hand them a big raise due to economic conditions.
The voters of the state have no say in Chi town.
They should be taking pay cuts, and be happy to have jobs.
Given the “fruits of their labor”, how would we notice the difference?
More “yutes” on the street?
Why doesn’t everyone go on strike and just change the name of the city to OCCUPY, Ill.?
30% raise is necessary to refill the Dem campaign coffers after getting their butts whooped in WI.
"Well, bye!"
Wonderful! Enrage tax payers just before the elections!
“30% raise is necessary to refill the Dem campaign coffers after getting their butts whooped in WI.”
Note for the uninitiated:
The pipeline from teacher’s wages, to unions, to the Dem HQ, is direct, with minimal pilfering along the way.
Stay out all year, teacha!
Waaa...waaa...wa-a-a-a.
Teachers can strike but the parents and children can’t?
The picture is becoming clearer...
Maybe, just maybe, this isn’t all about the children.
Great thing to have happen in an election year!
Go for it! Stay on strike for at least 6 months.
I know it sounds mean, but I'm fed up with the public servant class acting like public masters.
Our own local school district was content to settle for a 0.5% raise per year over the next three years. They know they are generally overpaid relative to the taxpayers who pay their freight and it was either that or lay-offs.
Of course, they are sooooooooo close to “educating” (bogus education) enough little communists so eventually they no longer have to worry about an aleged GOP right wing.
It is imperative we de-fund public education in as many localities as possible otherwise the communists will completely succeed in fulfilling the outline of the communist manifesto.
If we do not immediately begin to reduce the influence of communist union teachers on the next generation, communist mindsets will be the majority.
These union scum are contaminating not only K-12 but by extension, law schools, journalism schools, liberal arts (goes without saying),... and this brainwashing is completely taking over almost every aspect of life in the USA.
They have no problem dictating what our children will learn, eat, think, see, hear, etc and we stand by and let it happen.
For decades we have willingly (under penalty of law) turned our impressionable children over to unionized commie teachers and surprise, surprise the liberal population is increasing.
Eventually we will become like Europe where the Right is actually to the political left of our current center.
If you have a child, grandchild, great grandchild, do everything possible to get them out of the public education system. Home school, private school, charter schools while not an easy road are a much better source of education than a group of communists.
My wife is from IL in a county south of Chicago. The folks there literally and viscerally hate that city. Like LA and SF are to California, Chicago is a giant leech that can’t be peeled off.
they are really going out on a limp here, it’s Summer vacation, unless they run the year round program in Chitcago?
Illinois is pretty much a conservative state..except Chicago area. Rest of the state pretty much votes conservative, but Chicago dictates to the rest of us
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/11/illinois_not_as_blue_as_you_th.html
“limb”
This is a pre-emptive move to force the state to copitulate before the hammer comes down from the taxpayers
The public sector unions know time is not on their side and they want an agreement before their collective rights are curtailed...
The strike, if it happens, would be in the Fall. This was just a vote to authorize the union bosses to shut down the schools if they want to.
That makes sense (I mean your analysis, not the behavior of the unions). When the collective bargaining reform was passed in Wisconsin, some school districts jumped into new contracts before the law went into effect. Those tend to be the districts that have had to make cuts, including layoffs, since then.
Let’s hope it is close to the election.
In an unrelated story, the number of Chicago teachers experiencing “car trouble” rose by 10% over the weekend.
I don’t know what the laws are in Illinois regarding PEU strikes,but ff the CFT is thinking strike, then the laws are in no way punitive. Here in NY they are somewhat tough. You lose 2 days pay for every day on strike and, more importantly, the union loses dues checkoff for two years. A big obstacle as seen in Wisconsin.In NY only the radical TWU has had the discipline to strike in the last few decades. Cops play the Blue Flu card but only with poor results. The UFT leadership is loathe to even request an authorization vote and they’ve been without a contract for three years.
You Freepers aren't going to believe me, but this is a rather flattering picture of the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis. You can catch her on YouTube for an even greater shock. (Hint: she weighs at least 350 pounds and usually struts her stuff dressed in pants suits, a robe and sandals). She is as militant as she is ugly. Anybody who thinks the teachers won't be out for a long time under her wise leadership is hopelessly naive.
I know you just didn't get that.....................
Rahm only needs to stand up and say at a press conference the statistic his School President said at a recent Economic Club of Chicago Luncheon. And that is; The Chicago School System only has a 4% graduation rate from college. Yep, 96% of the kids that enter a Chicago public school will not graduate from college. That is 6 times worse than the national average. Rahm says that and I don’t know how the teachers have a leg to stand on.
Rahm only needs to stand up and say at a press conference the statistic his School President said at a recent Economic Club of Chicago Luncheon. And that is; The Chicago School System only has a 4% graduation rate from college. Yep, 96% of the kids that enter a Chicago public school will not graduate from college. That is 6 times worse than the national average. Rahm says that and I don’t know how the teachers have a leg to stand on.
Rahm only needs to stand up and say at a press conference the statistic his School President said at a recent Economic Club of Chicago Luncheon. And that is; The Chicago School System only has a 4% graduation rate from college. Yep, 96% of the kids that enter a Chicago public school will not graduate from college. That is 6 times worse than the national average. Rahm says that and I don’t know how the teachers have a leg to stand on.
Rahm only needs to stand up and say at a press conference the statistic his School President said at a recent Economic Club of Chicago Luncheon. And that is; The Chicago School System only has a 4% graduation rate from college. Yep, 96% of the kids that enter a Chicago public school will not graduate from college. That is 6 times worse than the national average. Rahm says that and I don’t know how the teachers have a leg to stand on.
Yup...the fact the union is asking for a 30 % increase over two years is probably a clue the unions know the jig is up...
Change will come whether or not they like it
You don’t understand Chicago.
.. but.. I do understand.. Rom and friends, are being told that they will be getting an invitation to OCCUPY, THEIR TRUNK, if they don't sign on the dotted line.. This is a GUN FREE city that must mean you have to pay for your own weapon, just watch the body count every weekend..
These teachers must be teaching real GUN CONTROL, and deserve a raise.. jus sayin
I see a political strategy here. Call a strike in the fall, close to the election. When it looks like no common ground can be found 0bama comes in off his campaigning so that he can be the grand negotiator. Strike is called off and 0bama comes off as a hero for kids and education. A rat strategy.
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