Hinsdale High School Teachers File Strike Notice

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/ ^ | 09/10/2014 | n/a

[massmike]

High school teachers in west suburban Hinsdale have taken a step closer to a possible strike, amid stalled contract talks with Hinsdale Township High School District 86.

On Tuesday, the Hinsdale High School Teachers Association filed a strike notice with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board. That starts a 28-day countdown until teachers can actually walk off the job.

District 86 Board President Dr. Richard Skoda said, “I am especially saddened by this because last night the Board unanimously announced in public that we were seriously weighing the Union’s proposal, which we received at 10 p.m. Sunday night, and sought time to thoughtfully cost out that proposal and meet with their leadership to ascertain that we were using the same numbers in our analyses.”

Skoda noted the timing of the notice from the union would allow a strike to begin right before the football game between Hinsdale South and Hinsdale Central, which is also Hinsdale Central’s homecoming.

In a statement on union’s website, officials said, “The board has made minuscule changes, superficial adjustments and incomplete proposals since last September, while we have been making significant concessions to try and meet their extreme demands.” Hinsdale High School Teachers Association lead negotiator Jeff Waterman said the strike notice is a necessary step to make progress in contract talks.

[sharkhawk]

I believe that’s actual salary.

[Rockpile]

Dang. If that is average then what is the top level.

And these are classroom hired hands? That does not include administator staff? Don’t these people know what is going on the rest of the country?

[sharkhawk]

http://illinois-teachers.findthebest.com/d/b/Hinsdale-Central-High-School

[sharkhawk]

That’s hilarious!
They make it sound like Hinsdale is “white-flight removed” from the Southside.

Eh, West suburban is pretty much shorthand for Chicago people, the conference is even named the West Suburban Conference. Although sometimes it is said as far western suburbs, to distinguish from the closer in, poorer burbs like Berwyn, Maywood or Cicero.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Berwyn, Maywood, Cicero*, Hinsdale are all “West Urban South Chicago”.

I spent 10 years in Homer Glen/Lockport; the real suburbs.

*Do yooze know if Betty is still alive; howze she doin?

[sharkhawk]

Nah, Lockport and Homer Glen are what we called the sticks, or downstate. LOL. (I grew up in Downers Grove). And Cicero ain’t the Cicero of old, the Polacks, Guineas, Slovaks and Loogies of old have given way to the Amish and MS-13.

[jonascord]

Even back when, I-294 was the barrier between the Chicago of King Richard Daley and the Hinsdale/Oakbrook/Clarendon Hills ghetto.
The Hinsdale PD had one mission: Keep out the riff-raff. If your car didn't have an approved town sticker, you WERE going to get rousted.

How many public high schools actually had freshmen delivered by chauffer?

[PhilCollins]

My wife, Nicole, graduated from Hinsdale Central High School, and she’s not surprised that the teachers will probably strike, although they’re paid at least $52,000, per year. She said that they’re greedy yuppies.