By: Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
The Chicago Teachers Union has decided once again its teachers won’t be in the classroom. City teachers refused to show up for class on Wednesday after 73 percent of CTU members voted the day before to return to remote learning for Chicago’s Public Schools. In response, CPS has canceled all classes and Mayor Lori Lightfoot has threatened to dock the pay of teachers who don’t show up.
The CTU is proving once again to be one of the nation’s most militant unions. Chicago teachers have already struck four times in the last decade and this time they’re using COVID as an excuse – never mind that Gov. Pritzker, Mayor Lightfoot, and Chicago’s top health official Dr. Arwady are calling for kids to remain in school. It’s yet another CTU power play where poor and minority students will suffer the most.
Lightfoot shouldn’t be surprised by the CTU’s latest challenge to her leadership. She’s appeased them every time they’ve had a conflict over contracts, shut classrooms and COVID mitigations.
She fully enabled the CTU’s behavior just two years ago when she had a chance to put her foot down during contract negotiations. She should have offered the union nothing. The city is broke and junk-rated and CPS is even worse off (see Appendix).
Instead, she did the exact opposite by offering what she called the “most generous” contract ever to the union. Her initial generosity was met with an 11-day strike that ended with teachers extracting even more benefits from the shrinking school system that’s lost almost 25 percent of its student population since 2001.
And don’t forget that the CTU pulled a similar stunt over COVID this same time last year. When Chicago teachers refused to show up for work in defiance of Chicago’s Public Schools’ directive to return to classrooms, Lightfoot moved the school start date back again and again instead of confronting the union.
Lightfoot should have learned from the failed experiences of her predecessor Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel came to Chicago from the White House with the reputation as a savvy insider and ruthless tactician who would fix what the city’s previous mayor, Richard M. Daley, ignored — the unions’ stranglehold on the city and Chicago’s nearly $30 billion pension debt. Emanuel ended up failing on both counts.
His 2012 challenge to the CTU’s contract demands had a strong foundation. Chicago had the shortest school day and year when compared to other large cities. CPS was stuck with a $1 billion dollar operating deficit. The district had dozens of near-empty, underperforming schools. And the city’s teacher pension debt had recently ballooned to over $8 billion.
None of that mattered after a week-long strike by the CTU. The mayor’s resolve broke. He gave in to demands for higher pay — a 17 percent increase over four years — and received few reforms in exchange.
Ditto in 2016, when the union held a one-day walkout, followed by additional months of ugly negotiations. Another strike in October of 2016 was averted when a deal was finally reached. The union ended up the winner again when Emanuel caved.
This latest “illegal work stoppage” by the union should be no surprise to Chicagoans considering the Illinois legislature and Gov. Pritzker granted the CTU even more powers in 2021. Lawmakers expanded CTU’s collective bargaining ability by increasing the number of items subject to contract negotiations.
In 1995, the legislature officially stripped the CTU of its broader negotiation powers and limited it to striking on just salaries and benefits. The new law Pritzker signed gave all those powers back.
Four fights with the CTU over the past ten years is bad enough. But the situation for Chicagoans is likely to get far worse now that the union officially has the ability to strike for any reason.
If you think that’s an exaggeration, consider the longer-term history of CPS and the CTU. Chicago teachers went on strike in 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1987. And according to the Chicago Tribune, the union threatened to strike another eight times during the same period.
Now CTU has the same powers it had when it went on that disruptive spree.
Give parents an exit
Lightfoot and Chicago Public Schools’ official response to the CTU’s no-show was pretty boilerplate:
“Chicago Public Schools must cancel classes tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Despite six months of active, good-faith discussions with the CTU, despite the fact that more than 90 percent of our staff is vaccinated, despite proven and implemented COVID-19 safety measures, and despite little evidence of in-school transmission, our teachers are not willing to report to work. We are deeply concerned about this decision but even more concerned about its impact on the health, safety, and well-being of our students and families.”
Chicago leaders’ worry for students and parents rings hollow considering how often they’ve given in to the union.
Two things should be obvious by now, One, that city officials will never actually stand up to the teacher union, and two, that Chicago parents and students need an exit from the broken public school system in the form of school choice.
Read more about Chicago leaders and their appeasement of the CTU:
- How can 84% of Chicago Public Schools students graduate when only 26% of 11th graders are proficient in reading, math?
- Families continue to flee Chicago Public Schools as it loses 14,000 students in 2022
- True inequality: In-class education at Chicago’s Catholic schools but remote learning at public schools
- Chicago leaders’ hypocritical stance on school choice
- Chicago teachers contract costs a record $1.5 billion, and that doesn’t even include pension costs
- Nine facts Chicago’s City Council ignored when passing the city’s 2021 budget
- Appease the Chicago Teachers Union and this is what you get
- What Happened to “Rahmbo” Emanuel?
Appendix
A set of state lawmakers want to extend CPS’ current school closing moratorium to February 1, 2027 – the same year CPS is set to transition to a fully-elected school board. That means schools like Manley High School, with capacity for more than 1,000 students but enrollment of just 78, can’t be closed for anther three years. The school spends $45,000 per student, but just 2.4% of students read at grade level.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
It certainly is good to see this post because we now know, according to the Illinois education complex, teachers are worth more than nurses.
According to them next time you are in a medical emergency at a hospital emergency room be sure to ignore the nurses and demand a teacher attend to you instead
Sure, what great logic! One can clearly and equally substitute for the other at lesser pay. What could possibly go wrong there?
If Spanky and Buckwheat are serious, they would simply declare that teachers are Essential Employees and put an end to this selfishness.
Already essential. You can’t force people to provide their labor in an unsafe environment. Nothing you can do spanky!!!!
Union Strong!!!
yea,chicago teachers are about as essential as hemmoroids,go work at burger king for 12 bucks an hour,youre not even worth that
This is what they’re doing in Arizona. https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/ariz-families-can-now-get-private-school-vouchers-if-their-schools-go-remote/2022/01
The teachers are acting out a death wish for a system that serves nobody other than its dispirited employees. There is a no way they should be retained, let alone incentivized to return to their jobs.
Would an airline hire suicidal pilots? Should a hospital keep a nurse who poisons patients? Should a palsy sufferer perform cataract surgery?
The collective action now in progress — with the support of so many union members — is adequate proof that any “fix” with this group of nihilists is futile. Time to start over. It’s for the children.
The ctu is right, it’s much too dangerous to be in classrooms. lightfoot should cancel classes until May and resume classes throughout the summer months…. Watch how many teachers walk back into the classroom. Both the cps and ctu are an absolute joke.
CTU has engaged in strikes 14 times over the last half century, according to the Wirepoints data; once every 3.7 years. Even the Teamsters don’t strike that often. Enough of these militant ingrates. Cut off salaries and benefits. City Council and Mayor, find your f*****g backbones and stand up to the CTU. Honest, dedicated teachers, walk out of the union and back into your classrooms. Follow Joe Ocol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J77CKzyUX_8
Professional jobs are not unionized, good teachers of integrity should quit this union.
The teachers union is a disease worse than Covid. So Lightfoot needs to make it very uncomfortable for teachers, the same way shes making it uncomfortable for families tbat decided not to vax. Cancel their health insurance, tell them they are going to be fired for not doing their jobs (what a concept). Lightfart is in a street brawl, a brawl assaulting kids, families, CPS, and herself. Yet she isnt standing up for herself, let alone families. What a useless leader she is.
Simply locking them out and not paying them would cause panic in the rank and file – they overspend and have little to no savings. Seeing the taxpayer nipple go bye-bye would be a severe shock – few have ever done honest work and would be hard pressed to find work outside of a McDonalds or Starbucks.
True, but who will break first? The union or parents demanding kids get back in school?
The remote learning can still occur with instructors from India. Very easy to outsource remote learning. Chicago has $B’s in Covid monies to facilitate.
As a Champaign/Urbana U of I grad of many years ago I have to say when taking the math and science courses sometimes taught by Asian and Indian grad students with very heavy accents I often felt as if I were taking “remote learning” classes. I don’t recommend it!
You are correct. I read months ago that these lock down work from home people are digging their own graves because globalists know that anyone from anywhere can now take your job if you sit at a screen all day. Your 80,000 dollar a year job can be done for much less.
Locking out the CTU, not paying them, and outsourcing the remote learning to Indian contractors would demoralize the rank and file and probably bust the CTU as only line crossers would keep their jobs. CPS and Chicago should go for it and bust the CTU.
Fire them all. It’s time to break the Union. Stacy Davis Gatez is a racist bigot.
And that she is
CHICAGO STUDENT HOSTAGE CRISIS – DAY 2
If my loved one was a hostage held by a criminal, I would plead with the authorities – police, FBI, etc. – to do everything they can to get my family member safely released. Chicago parents, why aren’t you demanding a release? Because their lives are not at stake? What about their mental health, their education, their future? Not important enough? What will it take for you to rise up against the two parties who claim to have your best interests in mind, but don’t – the CTU and the CPS?
Unless Chicago taxpayers and parents begin pushing back hard, the City will become a hollowed out hulk consisting of the very poor and the very wealthy. Nobody in the middle.
Families of every socioeconomic class are beginning to leave the City rather than sacrifice their children and stay and fight. Even the governor is silent on the issues ripping the City apart.
Notice the construction of new apartment buildings. That’s because no one wants to bet their equity on the City. Everyone would rather rent instead.
Save yourselves before it’s too late. Sell and either rent or move the suburbs.
Why would she do anything else? Those are her people, the POS that shout and scream when someone looks at them funny, that same group that rob, riot, burn, loot and she does nothing but blame the police and the opposite party. Useless mayor, like old 9 fingers before her.
It would be incredibly easy to bust the CTU, particularly now in these times. Just requires will. But that ‘will’ is nowhere to be found in Chicago.
Sending your kids into CPS is child abuse.
That CTU car caravan sure included a whole lot of Asian cars assembled by non-union workers. Like Rogue River running into the Sea of Camry.
Chicago is rapidly destroying itself: high-incidence of street-crime, political chicanery and corruption, and ineffective governance of public education, public health, public safety.
Parents sending their kids to CPS are committing child abuse.
Simple as that.
Looking at the payscales I see nurses are paid less than teachers. A nurse can save ones life while a teacher will baby sit children. Seems like the payscale is upside down on this one.
Ever tried being a baby sitter where there are LOTS of 16-year-old babies all wanting to do their own thing at any given moment rather than attend to your agenda? It isn’t a bed of roses! Its quite the opposite.
The “profession” they chose
Sure, but would most people who are reasonably well educated want to do it? No way, Jose! I certainly wouldn’t want to do so and especially in CPS. You’re asking for a life of continual grief from all directions in a great many of their schools. If you want to have a reasonably happy professional work life you won’t find it there most likely.
I would think police and firefighters would be more stressful. How about IRS employees? Maybe a Doctor who has to deliver death announcements. There are a lot of careers I consider more stressful that put in more hours per day, are on the job 52 weeks a years even having to be on the job on Kashmier Pulaski (sp) day and so on and so forth. Spare me the teachers are maryters silliness-if it was as bad as you say they would all have quit by now.
So, you think ranking jobs as to which is more stressful somehow minimizes the points I’ve been trying to make? Dont we want people to have the opportunity to feel reasonably satisfied–and maybe even “happy”–where they work? To come up with your version of a ranking system as to why one work group who surely is unhappy ought to be happier than another misses the overall point. Being dissatisfied with your job and/or not feeling that you recieving some kind of positive feed-back for your efforts isn’t a good thing no matter where you work. Good managers, wherever they are… Read more »
You brought it up and opened the door for comparisons. Nope, teachers have it considerably easier than other careers but they can’t realize it because from pre-k, grade school, middle school, high school, college to the classroom. They have never had a day in their life outside of the classroom. Imagine if teachers had to leave their lifetime of being in a classroom and getting into the real world with a full time job. I don’t think they could do it and is why they unionize to keep the featherbed they are paid to live in. Nice try but no… Read more »
I think you could classify many people in other careers with multiple college degrees similarly. Shall we throw that net out and see what others we can malign? After all, real men work in coal mines, have a drink after work and put the little woman at home in her place, don’t they? Anybody who does not is clearly a pansy. That’s essentially your line of argument here. In that line of reasoning you get to decide who are worthy and who aren’t.
There are many competent, well qualified, dedicated professionals. They do have a hard time filling the jobs in the more challenging schools though, and will keep a subpar teacher who shows up regularly, doesn’t complain and does what they’re told. Well trained competent staff can go to the burbs or into another profession. The burnout is very high. Teachers are swore at, assaulted, and disrespect by students and parents. It’s not easy. But with the amount of money in the budget, it’s hard to believe that they can’t move the needle on student achievement a little higher. They have poor… Read more »
Throwing money at problems may help, but its seldom the only way to get predictably good results except where the payoff is clear such as “widget making” in a manufacturing environment. Trying to change opinions and predilections among people is a whole different hill to climb as the cemented viewpoints of commenters here clearly illustrate.
I don’t mean to say an impoverished West Side school should have the same scores as Northbrook, but any school with less than 20% at grade level needs severe interventions, or closure. Some of the HS in Chicago have average ACT scores of 13. At that point,myopic haven’t taught them and they are virtually unemployable. With the billions they have, vocational programs could be offered, and yes, scholarships for parents who want to try something different. The system is not doing everything it possibly can to help the kids, which should be their top mission, not a jobs program and… Read more »
Rob, that can’t be said often enough — that there are many good teachers. Be sure to see the interview with this CPS teacher, fighting cancer but fighting to make a difference in the classroom:https://youtu.be/J77CKzyUX_8
I do agree, James and I appreciate your comments. Though teachers in my district (upper-middle class area) have it very well, I cannot imagine teaching at CPS. Unfortunately, this issue is so complex. I suspect higher quality staff rarely work for the worst of the CPS schools (though I personally know someone from an affluent suburb who graduated from Michigan and is now an SLP at one of them – her passion is to help those kids) because in many of those schools the environment is exasperating. The unions have too much power, many parents aren’t involved, money is poured… Read more »
This is a great, comprehensive comment.
James I’ve heard many a stories about this and yes I do acknowledge to this problem within the classroom. I point my finger and blame one group and one group only, the parents.
James has a point. I can only imagine the difficulty of some of the students. The functional literacy of a number of them is sadly lacking so actual teaching must be difficult. CTU teachers on average have low academic qualifications. While some may truly desire to have an experience in a high acuity urban environment, ACT scorers of 19 (the CTU average) may not find a great deal of choice in the teacher marketplace. So teaching is often challenging in the CPS environments. Of course, the bottom line is that people are fleeing the system. Query whether CTU owns any… Read more »
If the public really wants higher quality teachers in urban schools its going to require a redo as to what potentually successul teachers “look like,” what resources they need, what the reasonable expectations should be for them, what salaries and benefits are needed to attract and retain them, etc. Warm bodies with average I. Q. scores and half-hearted levels of inspiration should be shown the exit door. The eventual potentially attractive aspects of such teaching jobs needs to be prioritized.
Redo? Well here in Illinois with the power of the teachers union how do you expect that to happen? That union saves many of them their jobs that they say are so difficult yet fight to keep on the payroll.
Where people in labor and management see each other as enemies progress will forever be elusive. The wiser ones will seek to turn that relationship around for their mutual benefit. That’s much of why the heads of such organizations are paid the big bucks presumably–to bring agreement as what’s important and what’s of lesser importance.
“How do i reach these keedz?!” – Eric Cartman
Laugh…your teacher angels couldn’t hold a candle to the stress nurses have to. I almost spit mu morning coffee out reading that from you.
Now, you’re into the stress-ranking process, too? I’m not saying other jobs aren’t stressful, but my purposes here its not helpful for me or anyone else here to come up with our individual concepts of ranking jobs as to their stress-creation level comparisons. Stress is stress! We need to recognize when its there and try to alleviate it.
The point is that stress directly impacts compensation, as it should. Yes, you are correct in that having the patience and fortitude to work with kids is not for everyone. But your argument that we need to “recognize when [stress] is there and try to alleviate it” goes the same for teachers. It’s also an important part of compensation for other jobs (air traffic controllers, for example have a very different kind of stress than teachers, and are paid for it). Compensation has many components, with skill set, time, stress, flexibility and work environment all being factors. Sometimes other things… Read more »
“….city officials will never actually stand up to the teacher union,”
Exactly correct. Nor will any Illinois Democrat in a contest between between deciding something based on what’s good for Illinois taxpayers, or what a public employee union wants – and has “bought” with their financial contributions bankrolled by taxpayer-funded union dues (i.e. bribes).
SEIU, AFSCME, CTU, IEA, et al, absolutely own state and local government in Illinois just as surely as I own my 10 year old pickup truck.
Lightfoot is blowing smoke. She’ll give the Chicago Teachers Union exactly what the union wants.
Can’t say as I blame them…
After all they are just imitating their (D) enablers, who at the first chance they get, flee to free states (FLA) to *work remotely*…
Pretty sweet gig…
I’d love to see CPD & CFD do that…
Work a crime scene or fight a fire via zoom…!
But, but, it’s for the kids!!!!
This is great theatre.
Lori will cave and pay. Some kid who should be in school will be struck by a car. Lori will put on her sad mask and cave. Lori will end up very angry.
And we’ll be seeing teachers on beaches soon with little umbrellas in their drinks.
I know of two out of town now!
Rahm Emmanuel wasn’t a complete failure. He closed 50 schools and CTU teachers still have to live in Chicago and pay those big property taxes to fund their pensions and free healthcare benefits. Karen Lewis went bananas after the school closures. That was hilarious.
My wife is a retired teacher. She just showed me a facebook post of some walked-out teacher friends on the beach in Florida. When it comes to Chicago schools, students probably learn more sitting at home anyway. Chicago teachers are the worst, the outcomes prove that. They can play with grading scales to make it look better, but in a head to head competition with other states Chicago students suck because their teachers suck. The whole system sucks, the worst, Lightfoot isn’t making it any better, the union certainly isnt either. Why do you think so many teachers keep their… Read more »
But it’s for the children.
In 2015-ish, average ACT score for teachers was 18… CPS, ex the selective enrollment and a handful of others, is a breeding ground for failure.
How many people can turn poop into gold? Chicago teachers are expected to do that apparently, and many of you are amazed and angered when hardly any can do it.
Am I to take it that you are referring to the youth of Chicago, generally children of Democrat voting block parents, are “poop”?
Interesting comment to say the least.
I’m referring to the total environment of teaching in CPS. There are very few ways to be allowed to perform and be recognized as a successful teacher and a huge number of ways ways to be villified. If you want better results the whole idea of “education” in a predominantly poor, uneducated environment has to be re-examined as well as what constitutes “successful teaching” there and what type of job candidates are most suited to do so. Typical college grads from the better universities can’t begin to understand that set of problems as compared to their own more privileged circumstances,… Read more »
James, I agree with you. I have had long discussions with at least a couple of CTU teachers. My question to one of them was, why should we (as business owners and taxpayers) continue to invest more into this failed system if teachers can do nothing about it? This was in response to this person’s agreement with me that teachers are almost powerless without good parenting and involvement. Well, that seems like an almost intractable cultural problem to me. So why put more precious resources into something that isn’t going to change? This person had no good answer for that.… Read more »
I agree with much of what you’ve said, and theoretically at least I’m in favor of vouchers. My main gripe is that there is too little focus on what kids need what kinds of education. Do we as taxpayers reallly need to support giving literally every child every class possible in school, knowing that maybe only a small percentage of them really “need” such classes in terms of college and/or job preparation. I say we should put taxpayer resources to better use by putting kids in tracked-class situations–doing our best to teach the harder subject to kids that are ready,… Read more »
Vouchers for parents choice for their children. Simple solution for a very complex problem.
Every farmer I know turn poop into gold.
The teachers are lazy losers and need to be replaced asap.
I don’t think it’s fair to lump all Chicago teachers as “the worst” and we should be hesitant to make such grand generalizations as it weakens our own arguments. There are plenty of great teachers in CPS churning away as best the can, despite having an incompetent boss and a batshit crazy union. The ones that don’t care about the politics and are tired of their union making them come across as petulant children.
Fire them all Reagan PATCO style. Vouchers for rest of the year and watch the standardized test scores go up
Rahm’s big failure was folding on the 7% pension pickup. Instead of getting rid of it altogether, he “eliminated” it for only new hires BUT added 7% to their base salaries. In other words, the cost remained the same.
The guys behind the constitutional amendment to cement union rights into our state constitutional have to be fuming over this. CTU’s tantrum is going to be used in all the ads telling people to vote no. This is where Griffin needs to put his money.
Where’s all are shameless Aldercridders taken a stand for the kids & parents? Probably worried if they say anything they’ll get their little $pay-to-play payola$ from ctu union dues cut off
Jesse S comments are heard loud and clear by the Illinois medical professional community whose servitude is demanded to both prolong that ilk’s qaly’s and fund their lengthened lifespans through obscene taxation and lost home equity.
They should unionize and stand tall instead of serving corporate stooges of managed care while on their knees.
I expect you to advocate for nurses to get the same deal as teachers:
1. $60,000+ lifetime payments starting at age 55 retirement after 20 years vesting.
(At most 2% of salary pension contribution required, and pay back 6.2% required social security withholding to the nurse).
2. Half the hours worked as today for same annual pay.
3. Free health insurance to nurse beginning at her age 55 retirement.
Where should nurses sign up?
Union members can get their high salaries only because non-union people pay more in taxes. Unions can execute that because they gained undue political power allowing them to extort money from me so they can get exorbitant salaries and unrealistic pensions.
Your suggestion that we all should unionize is hypocritical. We would go bankrupt the next day.
Only realistic choice is to move out before it’s too l late.
That is a point I was trying to make. Obliquely. If this girl had replied I would try to establish the logic that you stated: society cannot afford to overvalue a poorly performing easily replaceable professional class so dearly above others more critically necessary and more difficult to acquire service commitments from as a group. Not just nurses, but that is a good comparison for many reasons. But narcissistic sociopaths have moral certainty of personal entitlements and superiority hard wired into their thought processes. It is difficult to believe this girl will entertain any evidence which might disturb her own… Read more »
i expect a bunch of downvotes btw,jesse snarkey and his hapless minions will be downvoting tonight
well imagine that,the teachers want more,then more then some more,seems to me theyre all just a bunch of fat lazy slobs looking for any excuse to not work,this so called pandemic is nothing more than a convenience for these people,fire ALL of them and start over,oh yeah,this is Chicago,theyll cave in to thier demands once again,hopeless
Of course they will cave. That’s because we will not work in unsafe conditions. CTU is strong and that scares the people that want to starve public education.
Jesse, we don’t want to starve education but we do want school choice. And here’s an idea: To replace those of you too chicken to go into school, Illinois should pass an emergency authorization to let selected citizens do it until you are all replaced with people who want to teach. We would probably do a better job than most of you anyway. Well, except maybe on Marxism.
I offer to volunteer on Marxism. I graduated from the two-year Evening University of Marxism and Leninism, back in my native Poland, when it was a part of the Soviet Bloc. I lived a significant portion of my adult life in a country run by Marxists. I am competent to teach kids that stuff.
That’s not the Marxism they want you to teach. They want you to teach the fake version where everything is great.
So far jb and illinois dem legislators receiving zero blow-back in press for signing HB2275 giving ctu unlimited power to walk out or go on strike 24/7 whenever they want? What a joke… Meanwhile my nw side ctu neighbors still all have their blm yard signs out front..what a bunch of self-serve hypocrites https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/after-decades-long-struggle-pritzker-signs-bill-restoring-ctu-bargaining-rights/
Zero blow back because we have the support of the teachers and parents. It’s what the voters want.
We are union strong!!!
That’s not something to brag about!
Having support of the teachers, parents and voters is something to brag about. Losing an election by 7 million and believing you won is not. We will not back down to the crazy trumpsters.
Enjoy your insurrection anniversary tomorrow teabilly.
I know you’re just a troll having fun, and that’s OK, but you’re confusing your concepts here, throwing in Biden’s allegedly victory and trump with the teachers’ union. If you were intelligent Jesse (or whoever you are) you would understand that Lori won 75% of Chicago’s vote. She represents the people of Chicago. And she is against the walk-out. So can I say that maybe at best you have 25% support of the people because 75% of the people are against you. Also, no one outside politics cares about the mostly peaceful protest of January 6th. Literally no one. In… Read more »
She HAD 75%. No way she gets that in the next election. Not without our support. Keep making excuses about your traitorous behavior. We are union strong and WE decide what conditions and pay we will work under. Get used to that concept traitor.
cant argue with that jesse snarkey,you have a valid point
The strength of the unions is unconstitutional. Should be challenged as such. And should be taken away.
… and soon you will be out of a job if there is any justice in this world.
You need to accept reality…I will not only remain employed but I’ll receive a raise each year and a pension when I retire. Life is good!
Union Strong!!!!
Do you know if the FBI is tapping your phone lines?
What exactly is the point to Chicago? Nothing there seems to work. Nothing.