"What’s at stake really isn't money, at least in the form of pay hikes. The outcome of the standoff will determine who will have the power over Chicago Public Schools—who will control and set priorities.... This confrontation, whether it leads to a strike or not, pivots on both sides' willingness to change the nature of the relationship between City Hall and one of its major labor unions.
"Lightfoot wants the power to remain where it has resided for decades, with the mayoral-controlled Chicago Board of Education.... The CTU, meanwhile, wants a rewrite...CTU's demands stem from and in some ways sparked a wider, national socio-political movement in which the progressive left is flexing its muscle behind people like presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, who personally led a CTU rally here just a few days ago. 'Our resistance in 2012 (to then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel) helped to ignite the national #RedForEd movement and reset the terms of the debate over public education grounded in equity, educational justice and working and learning conditions,' says CTU President Jesse Sharkey in an email. 'Our goal is to win the schools Chicago students deserve, nothing less.'
CTU is so arrogant and power mad that they think that they can make any demand at all and eventually Chicago will cave. So far they have been right. This disgusting band of thieves needs to be busted. Reconstitute CPS. Fire them all. Start Over.
NB-Chicago
6 years ago
Sure wish somebody at cps, ctu, or press could make the case that cps is understaffed for us tapped out tax payers? 297,000 non charter students / 25,000 ctu staff = 11.88 students /per ctu staff..how in the world is that understaffed? Not to mension 12,000 additional seiu staff, substitutes, contract workers, etc.. at +$21,000 per student spending. facts and $ figures mean nothing to ctu..crazy
Check out if you haven’t already “John Stossel Stupid in America 5-6-12” on you tube. The 5-6-12 is the air date. He has more video’s on public education. He calls the public school system “The Blob” Every taxpayer should see this!!
debtsor
6 years ago
” ‘Our goal is to win the schools Chicago students deserve, nothing less.’ ”
Our pay raises and increased union membership are for the children!
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
CTU is so arrogant and power mad that they think that they can make any demand at all and eventually Chicago will cave. So far they have been right. This disgusting band of thieves needs to be busted. Reconstitute CPS. Fire them all. Start Over.
Sure wish somebody at cps, ctu, or press could make the case that cps is understaffed for us tapped out tax payers? 297,000 non charter students / 25,000 ctu staff = 11.88 students /per ctu staff..how in the world is that understaffed? Not to mension 12,000 additional seiu staff, substitutes, contract workers, etc.. at +$21,000 per student spending. facts and $ figures mean nothing to ctu..crazy
Check out if you haven’t already “John Stossel Stupid in America 5-6-12” on you tube. The 5-6-12 is the air date. He has more video’s on public education. He calls the public school system “The Blob” Every taxpayer should see this!!
” ‘Our goal is to win the schools Chicago students deserve, nothing less.’ ”
Our pay raises and increased union membership are for the children!