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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTentative deal reached with striking Chicago teachers
Bloch was asked how confident he was that delegates would be happy enough with the deal to end the strike.
I cant provide assurances, but I can tell you that its a contract that the committee expects to recommend to the membership. And if we have been listening to the membership well and have heard their concerns, then that agreement will be acceptable to our membership overall, Bloch said.
We are hopeful that we will have a complete agreement done by Sunday, that when the House of Delegates will review it, that they will have confidence in that agreement and that they will vote to suspend the strike so students can return to school on Monday, he added.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-chicago-teachers-strike-0914-20120914,0,5804860.story
Kingofalldems
(38,500 posts)jenw2
(374 posts)senseandsensibility
(17,192 posts)will provide raises for their teachers. Those teachers did not walk the walk and don't deserve a raise won by the union membership. I hope this deal is truly acceptable to the teachers, and if it is, I congratulate them on their victory against powerful odds.
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)if they are then they will need to at least match the raise to keep their guys in place. As i dont live in chicago i have no idea of the situation there.
still_one
(92,482 posts)Warpy
(111,405 posts)that a majority of parents in the district would approve of the strike and his internal polls must've been much more favorable to it than the 55% favorable number that was released to the press.
This was a bad miscalculation on his part. Good.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Im not sure why Rahm would ever have believed parents would turn against the teachers. If he did he just wasn't paying attention.
Warpy
(111,405 posts)and his own importance to the working of the universe that he never considered the work the union had been doing in preparation for this showdown.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)senseandsensibility
(17,192 posts)Let's hope this is a true cause for celebration.