The Chicago Teachers Union made another move to silence its critics after the House of Delegates voted in favor of the “Resolution to Maintain the Integrity of the CTU House of Delegates Meetings.” Chicago Teachers Union contract demands are totally divorced from reality – Wirepoints
May 8, 2024
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Details emerging about Chicago Teachers Union’s upcoming contract show just how divorced its demands, both extreme and expensive, are from the reality at Chicago schools. It’s not just about massive salary increases, but also about money for migrant students, climate initiatives, abortions and gender-affirming care. About blocking parental notification. Count on CTU’s demands to veer further from reality until the public finally says no.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
Teachers, afraid of words.
Let that sink in.
Downvoter, afraid of words.
Just like their predecessor, CORE has gotten far too comfortable in their leadership role. But this is what union membership voted for. J
There is nothing stopping disgruntled CTU members from leaving CTU and forming their own union.
Why would any CTU member not be happy with CORE? As Gates & crew just keep racken up the $$$wins$$$.
Sorry to read that George Schmidt had passed away. He was a good friend and a great writer. He worked tirelessly on a monthly newspaper called SUBSTANCE which exposed major corruption and hypocrisy in CPS.
These are the same people running City Hall, mind you. Wait til the Sun-Times and Trib reporters get the same treatment and shuffle away meekly in response.
🎶“Deutschland, Deutschland über alles” 🎶
I’m kinda surprised CTU hasn’t cracked down on Second City Teacher sooner. They’re a sloppy dictatorship outfit. Apparently, CTU/Brandon and his DSA crew are topping the list for LACK of transparency and closed access to mayors office as well.
CONTEMPTIBLE.
This is what passes as “leadership” and “role-model” here in Chicago.
For shame, CTU union members.
Tyrants like this are what the Founding Fathers warned you about. Bust this terrorist organization now.
Can’t bust something that is constitutionally protected. Their right to form a union is enshrined in our constitution.
You know how they got “constitutionally protected”? As debtsor has pointed out, they can get “constitutionally unprotected” the same way.
Yes, for the last 100 years, the IL Sup Ct said “uninsured motorist coverage doesn’t apply to pedestrians” and 4 days ago they said, “Oopps! we were wrong!” and then last week they that for 50 years, they were wrong about insurance coverage in construction or something. And in 10 years, when various black and brown municipalities have all of their taxes siphoned off to pay retired employees, with little money left over to pay for current employees, or even keep the lights on, the IL Supreme Court is going to find that the pension clause itself to violate the… Read more »
No doubt. Now get to work and change it.
Your faith in your mob is touching.
The “mob”, aka the voters.
Not true. They can form any sort of club they like but negotiating with an employer is not in the constitution and for public workers is in fact unconstitutional. They will be busted down to the primordial scum that they are.
I’m assuming you’re being ignorant on purpose at this point. Wirepoints has covered this in depth as they tried to stop its passage. Very on brand for you. SECTION 25. WORKERS’ RIGHTS (a) Employees shall have the fundamental right to organize and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing for the purpose of negotiating wages, hours, and working conditions, and to protect their economic welfare and safety at work. No law shall be passed that interferes with, negates, or diminishes the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively over their wages, hours, and other terms and conditions… Read more »
The only Constitution that matters is the United States Constitution. Not the union soaked rag illegally imposed upon Illinois.
I agree the US Constitution matters but by its own design reserves power for the state or the people. Do you not believe in states rights? “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Please learn about the 10th amendment. You don’t just get to pick and choose parts you like and ignore the rest. Our state used its power to make the right to join a union and collectively bargain. So no, the US Constitution isn’t the only one… Read more »
Of course the 10th amendment was meant to negate the rest of the Constitution, so that government employees could impose their mob rule on the rest of the population.. Exactly what the founders envisioned.
It doesn’t negate it. You have serious reading comprehension issues. The state has its own constitution and it doesn’t violate the US constitution. Time to grow up if you don’t understand that simple concept. What you call mob rule is actually the public voting for their representative government. Just a sore loser that doesn’t like how others vote. Boo hoo.
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“Sore loser” “boo hoo”. Yeah, I’m the one who needs to grow up.
You don’t like it that people vote different than you. How else should we decide elections. You’re a child to believe that voters shouldn’t have a say.
People voting? Or balloted counted? A major union “knew” the bill passed and “called” its passage hours, days before the official call was made. How did this know this?
People voting. They knew it passed because of math. I explained that to you then as well. Just keep pretending elections are stolen because you don’t understand how amendments are passed.
Public employees have the right to bleed the state dry in compensation for their successful efforts to destroy the education system. It’s all right there in the 10th Amendment!
I think I saw this photo hanging at the post office. LOL
I imagine Mr. Vail feels somewhat like a child who discovers that there is no Santa. He thought teacher union leaders were benevolent advocates for a better society. He found out that they are actually ruthless authoritarians. Has he met the retired teachers yet?
CTU leadership has lunch more often with CPS central administration than it does with their classroom staff in schools.
I know from previous comments that you have personal experience with CPS, and I’m sure you are right. But why do teachers keep electing this type of leadership?