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.”
Are people supposed to have sympathy when they have lost jobs?
The Illinois government is useless.
Still waiting for Prigster to cover NON-state formerly-productive-now-unemployed private sector workers’ unemployment insurance with interest proceeds from his trust fund.
No such thing will happen.
Only thing that will happen is HIGHER, HIGHER, HIGHER TAXES.
In a well heeled liberal suburb it just took 5 months to get a building permit for a little addition to a ranch house. After the remote appearance commission, they sat on the plans almost all summer, presumably to go protesting? Golf maybe? Then they surface in July to ask for tree removal fees. They dont release the permit until end of August but cant physically give us one, and dont have a protocol in place for handling paper. Our “servants” are effectively useless at this point and costing us a ton of money we cant afford to pay. The… Read more »
Everyone knows speedy construction approvals in the Chicago area require an envelope with cash or a flat screen TV mysteriously showing up on the doorstep.
That’s a joke and not recommended.
JB just wants someone else to blame for his layoffs. He should’ve been working on a furlough plan by now, at the very least.
Start cutting the fat pritzker no pun intended
No one has been at the work at the state for 6 months. The attorney general doesn’t answer the phone. The disability area has broken email links. They lie to the taxpayers saying they are working from home. State employees have refused to respond repeatedly to emails, and phone calls are unanswered. Too bad all the so called investigative reporters in town are too busy doing the bidding of blm and trying to demonize police at the direction of Lori and the democratic machine.
So true sir, I have been working at Menards during COVID to put food on the table, had to shut down my business because it was considered non-essential. No way back unfortunately. Meanwhile I have served very many public sector workers buying gazebos, barbecues, curtains and flooring for home improvement projects, all on the taxpayers dime. Remember these folk got a stimulus check, whilst being fully paid whilst not being at work, whilst the private sector got decimated. I am sorry but not all public sector workers undertake essential jobs. For this reason alone there should have been job losses… Read more »
I hope everybody reads Wolfnight’s comment above.
2016 it was the deplorables.
2020 it is the non-essentials.
https://patch.com/illinois/romeoville/village-get-aquatic-center-indoor-pool-huge-splash-pad. Amazing no lay offs or cutbacks in are village but yet they have all this money to build a aquatic center. They just spent around 300k to update one of the many parks, why. I’m retired and have been noticing school buses driving around town empty ??? wasting taxpayers money then I come to find out there delivering lunches for school children. It’s time the public sector workers feel the pain like everyone else is experiencing, no bailout for Illinois. And just to set the record straight I’m not a retired wealthy public sector worker, I spent 40 years… Read more »
Bread and circuses .. though this fails eventually, as the fall of Rome should have taught us.
A very unpopular opinion in our current times of coddling, but ‘don’t feed the wild animals, they will become dependent on it’ should also apply.
I don’t disagree at all with your conclusive statements, but your way of getting there seems suspect. How does a guy who presumably has a short job history at a particular Menards store know the work history of his customers, for example? Doesn’t that strike you as an odd statement for such a person to make? Then, what does a “lot” mean and in what overall context? Do you learn such things somewhat randomly as some people want to reveal their lives to you, do you see some kind of customer statistics, or are you just guessing based upon your… Read more »
Thank you sir, I respect your feedback. Yes a very short time at Menards after 39 years in the Oil & Gas industry, engineer by trade. Whole career in industry, similar to Fed up Neighbor above I guess. Menards, like most retail firms I know off, assess their customer profiles 24×7, who buys what, from where and likely income group. I am sure you know firms have data on everything and the means to collect it, so very scientific, although I am not an expert in this field. As for my personal experience, yes anecdotal but in March and April… Read more »
Thanks for your very polite reply, a true rarity here. You’ve explained your reasoning process very nicely, and I appreciate it. Too many here “shoot from the lip” and sometimes without much in the way of substantiation for a point of view. Your credibility has ramped up immeasurably for me at least. Thanks for your comments now and earlier in that you have given me cause to think of them as reasonable.
layoffs are long overdue
The Federal government should not be bailing out Illinois and the deep hole it has been in for quite some time.
Layoffs? It’s about time.
It was time 30 years ago