Obama wanted it over!
The reason Obama wanted it over is the teacher’s union was revealing that the real underlying inflation and the real lack of growth is incomes is turning America into a nation of welfare clients.
They were asking for 16% at 3 years of 5%+ each year.
That is about equal to core inflation in July, which was 4.8% annually, and the August numbers of total inflation pegged it at a 20% per year rate.
These teachers were about to reveal that the emperor had no clothes.
And, I’m not sure they even realized it.