Posted on 02/15/2021 10:18:42 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
In what is being characterized as a Democrat Party family feud, far-left Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is implying that the public school teachers union has too much power and wants more.
“When you have unions that have other aspirations beyond being a union, and maybe being something akin to a political party, then there’s always going to be conflict,” Lightfoot claimed in a New York Times interview. “I think, ultimately, they’d like to take over not only Chicago Public Schools, but take over running the city government.” Democrat politicians typically welcome unions with open arms, however, for votes, campaign workers, and funding, so some might argue that they already run the government in some municipalities or states.
The mayor’s comments about the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) in a softball New York Times interview come in the context of the intense resistance by the union to a return to classroom teaching. The organization finally agreed to in-person instruction on an incremental basis starting in March. The deal applies to K-8 only; high school students are still stuck at home for now.....
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omg, just wow
right??? 8^)
They are Bolsheviks to her Mensheviks.
Anyone who believes these clowns are on separate sides of the bargaining table doesn’t understand Chicago politics.
I was going to actually add to the debate but was taken aback by this Lightfoot person’s image. Are they a birth defect of some kind?
Kabuki theatre
IOW, she doesn’t like the competition.
Hypocrite!!!
Fetal alcohol ?
She looks to me to be a Fetal Alcohol Syndrome adult.
Most likely.
You, as with your DEM Leftist idiots, continually take their political money/donations tho, huh LightfootIdiot!?!
Stop talking with a forked tongue, kkthx!?
If real history was taught in Chicago schools, she would have realized that eventually revolutionaries always eat their own.
“Lightfoot says Chicago Teachers Union akin to a ‘political party’”
Who didn’t know that 20 years ago?
my guess? cockeyed maybe wandering eye... possibly some early form of Graves Disease?
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