Robert Bruno, professor of labor employment relations at the University of Illinois, said teachers have the strategic upper hand. Not because of a strike threat, but, if the plug is pulled on their ability to teach remotely, it would be Mayor Lightfoot pulling that plug. Those are optics and politics he said she’d want to avoid.
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.