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Chicago teachers asking for 30% raises over next 2 years
chicagotribune ^

Posted on 02/17/2012 6:59:40 AM PST by traumer

The Chicago Teachers Union is asking for raises amounting to 30 percent over the next two years, the opening salvo in heated contract negotiations with school officials who are implementing a longer school day across Chicago Public Schools next school year.

Documents obtained by the Tribune show that in the face of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's expansion of the school day, the union has led with an offer seeking a 24 percent raise in the 2012-13 school year and a 5 percent increase the following year, the net effect being 30 percent.

It may be playing hardball, or it could be, as one education expert described it, an "exorbitant offer" that ignores the district's growing financial constraints.

As she left CTU headquarters for contract negotiations Thursday, union President Karen Lewis declined to comment on the details of the proposal.

"We are not negotiating this in the public," Lewis said.

CTU spokeswoman Stephanie Gadlin issued a statement, saying: "Our contract negotiations have just begun and are negotiated in good faith and not in the public. We have not authorized the release of any proposals outside of negotiations."

The proposal also calls for reducing elementary school class sizes from 28 to 23 students and shrinking class sizes in the upper grade levels from about 31 students to 23.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


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1 posted on 02/17/2012 6:59:44 AM PST by traumer
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Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union
3 posted on 02/17/2012 7:01:38 AM PST by traumer
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And there is no reason the people should not give them these raises!

The people of Chicago LOVE Unions. They LOVE Democrats. They vote for them in devout fashion. The people of Chicago are true believers. Now it’s time that they demonstrate their worship of all things liberal and pay these high priests from the teacher’s union.

What do they have to complain about? This is what they desperately sought and demanded.


4 posted on 02/17/2012 7:03:14 AM PST by Obadiah (Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATMs?)
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She’s not bad-looking for a union gal.

Oh wait—I was looking at the person behind Ms. Lewis, the one with the big mustache.


5 posted on 02/17/2012 7:05:16 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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Hmmmm.....let’s see......I could work harder and make more money.....no, that’s not it......I could go back to school to train for a better job to make more money......that would cut into my tv time......I could start my own business.....no no no no no.......I could take money from other people by voting Democrat.....THERE’S THE ANSWER!!!!


6 posted on 02/17/2012 7:13:52 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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I thought it was a guy...


7 posted on 02/17/2012 7:15:13 AM PST by traumer
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I don't think you understand ...

Chicago area teachers NEED this raise, so they too can go with the Union Leaders on the next 7 Day Carribean Cruise .... all expenses on the taxpayer's dime.

8 posted on 02/17/2012 7:15:54 AM PST by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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9 posted on 02/17/2012 7:21:20 AM PST by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons)
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And they don’t want the talks in public? Wow..


10 posted on 02/17/2012 7:31:37 AM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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Please watch "Waiting for Superman"!! The moral to this film is that unions are the stumbling block to improving schools in the US. Chicago school teachers want more money yet their students test scores and % of students who graduate HS are still quite bad for a major urban area. In the real world, none of us would get raises for such bad professional performance.

Not one more DIME!!!!!!

12 posted on 02/17/2012 7:36:36 AM PST by HOYA97 (twitter @hoya97)
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I wonder if Karen Lewis is a liberal. Does anyone know?


13 posted on 02/17/2012 7:47:02 AM PST by MNDude
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Ok, we will give you that 30% raise but under conditions. You now have to work summers. No spring break vacation nor a long Christmas holiday.

No more getting out at 3:00 either. It's 5;00 from now on.

Oh and a independent, private committee will be formed to see how the kids are doing. If so many are failing you will be fired.

14 posted on 02/17/2012 7:47:43 AM PST by trailhkr1
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I think 30% is fair. I really think they deserve 50%. Maybe 60% is better. Maybe we should just double down like a poker bet. 100% or we strike.


15 posted on 02/17/2012 7:49:32 AM PST by Kozy (Calling Al Gore)
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Teachers got nothing, Rahm will roll these fat pigs.


16 posted on 02/17/2012 8:02:08 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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I wonder if Karen Lewis is a liberal. Does anyone know? - Not sure, maybe we can ask her parents. I think Jaba and The Predator are libertarians
17 posted on 02/17/2012 8:07:10 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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30%?

They got balls but anyone who asked for that would get a hard look and my response would be to laugh, initially.

Next, I’d look at their performance and see if maybe I should cut their wages, fire them or give them their ask with a letter of appreciation.


18 posted on 02/17/2012 8:08:21 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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If WI GOP is smart, they will use this in the recall campaign...show the voters why it is necessary to reign in the unions..


19 posted on 02/17/2012 9:40:14 AM PST by ken5050 (The ONLY reason to support Mitt: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will appear at the WH each Christmas)
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