CTU fails at reading the political moment – Editorial – Crain’s

Union leadership seems to have looked at teacher uprisings in certain red states and in Oakland, Calif., and drawn the conclusion that the same tactics will work here, igniting a grassroots brushfire of support for their cause. But teachers in those districts truly are miserably paid and their schools woefully underfunded. Chicago teachers, however, have been well paid for years, and Chicago isn't Oklahoma or West Virginia. Chicagoans understand the connection between good schools and a city's economic viability. They're also smarting from the tax burden being placed on them. And they've just elected a mayor who ran not on a message of slash-and-burn progressive politics but on a commitment to clean up government and restore financial order. Chicagoans are unlikely to have much patience for a union that seems hell-bent on misreading the moment.