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Union President Jesse Sharkey said that the mayor may be making promises to sound reassuring, but without a promise of changes like hand-washing stations and increased cleaning staff, conversations about returning to school were premature.
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How about these lazy union parasites do as they are told
So who runs the schools? The Teachers or the Administration?
What am I thinking? It’s Chicago. Of course the inmates run the asylum. And they write their own payroll checks too.
Bust this union.
Dearest CPS employees, you do realize the scalability of e-learning means we can have one teacher teach more than a few hundred students at one time, right? And, arguably, the idea of a system (CPS) that supports 200+ physical structures (which create significant expense, etc.) that are somewhat superfluous in a virtual teaching reality, suggest many/most of you are now unnecessary? If ever you folks thought it important to rise up against the goofs, Sharkey as exhibit #1, this is the time. These leaches have been enriching themselves on your (rank and file union dues paying folks) dues for a… Read more »
Get ready for ctu to press for renegotiating the ridiculous gold plated deal they just got to include hazard pay…thats what lightfoot just hinted at on daily covid report that ‘we are not renegotiating the contracts’, ie.-so she must already be getting pressed by ctu. Then watch all the other gov unions from chicago to springfield demand renegotiated contracts for covid/hasard pay….after all they’re heros!!
OMG, they go, Stacy Gates–“impact bargaining” $$$$$$$$$$$!@!! Chicago Sun-Times: We won’t reopen teachers contract for Chicago Public Schools to start on time this fall, Lightfoot says.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/5/11/21255248/reopen-schools-chicago-lori-lightfoot-teachers-union-contract-fall