You got Rahm “The Wonder Horse” wrong. He PROVOKED this strike with demands for another hour (16% longer day).
BTW 76 Gs is not a huge salary and is less than most of the suburban teachers make. Chicago is expensive to live in.
Lower Charter School salaries reflect younger teachers.
Now Rahm “The Wonder Horse” is floating the idea of MORE Charter schools (non-union) to try and bring the union to sanity.
Walker has shown the way and Rahm “The Wonder Horse” has determined that the unions must be confronted even the idiot in Springfield has realized this.
“76 Gs is not a huge salary”
How does it compare to the Median income for Chicago? Probably at least 30 grand more. And that’s not including benefits, nor factoring in hours worked per day and the tact that they’re off for three months a year.
I realize the entire point of unions and government monopolies is not to think about it, but what would these teachers make if they had to compete with everyone else in the job market and schools had to compete with every other expenditure? Not this much.
In general, teachers score way below average among college graduates for aptitude and subject knowledge—with inner city teachers on average the lowest of the low. They get not weeks, but months of vacation, a higher salary than they could earn in the private workforce, and then over-generous, defined benefit as opposed to defined contribution, pensions.
That they get government-enabled union representation to bilk taxpayers like that is reprehensible, and the sooner we get union representation out of government employment, the better off our kids and our country will be.