Chicago Teachers Union Strike Likely

[proud2BlibKansan]

August 13, 2011. Chicago. Local media outlets are reporting the details of tomorrow’s radio interview between Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis and WLS AM’s Bill Cameron. The program will air Sunday on 890 AM at 2:00pm Chicago time. During the prerecorded radio show, Lewis calls the chances of a teachers’ strike next year “very high”.

The Chicago Teachers Union is fuming over the rescinding of their contracted 4 percent pay raise scheduled to go into effect this year. Administration officials have arbitrarily decided to only put half that amount, 2 percent, of the raises into effect now, while delaying the other 2 percent increase for another year. In the meantime, hundreds of teachers and supporting staff have been laid off in an attempt to plug gaping budget deficits on the city, county, state and Federal levels.

In a show of no confidence in Chicago’s public school system, newly elected Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his wife have chosen to send their children to one of the city’s most elite and exclusive private schools. Read the Examiner.com article ‘Emanuel MIA After Dissing Chicago Schools’ for more information. The private school chosen by the mayor, Chicago Lab Schools, is the same one chosen by Mayor Richard Daley and President Obama for their children. The cost of one year of tuition at Chicago Lab is reported to be roughly $24,870.



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[jaxx]

2. And all this time people have been saying it's Arne's fault.

[Drale]

3. Yeah this isn't about Rahm,

this is about next idiot in line to run the Chicago Public Schools. It seem to matter who is mayor, they have no idea how to choose a schools CEO.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. He rescinded their raise

[frazzled]

5. Clarification

The president of the Chicago Teachers Union said Friday on a radio show that there is a “very high” likelihood that teachers will ask her to take a strike vote, given how angry and disrespected they feel.

But clarifying later to the Chicago Sun-Times, Karen Lewis said she did not predict that teachers will ultimately go on strike, only that the probability is high that members will call for a strike vote.


http://www.suntimes.com/7036907-417/teachers-upset-enough-to-ask-for-strike-vote-union-chief-says.html

It's unclear how many teachers will call for a strike vote: is it a small minority, a vast majority? It's unclear whether they would ever get the 75% of eligible CTU members to actually vote for a strike--the number required. The one thing that's clear is that school will start as usual (indeed, early start schools have already begun in the city).

[mmonk]

6. Go for it. Time to rock.

[roxiejules]

7. While Rahm is attacking the unions....Gov. Perry is accusing

Duncan and Obama of a “federal takeover of public schools” with the Race to the Top competition.

"I will not commit Texas taxpayers to unfunded federal obligations or to the adoption of unproven, cost-prohibitive national curriculum standards and tests...."



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-perry-obama-education-fight/2011/08/12/gIQAQ65AFJ_blog.html?wprss=answer-sheet


:crazy:

[Starry Messenger]

8. k&r