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.”
Nothing in this report incentivizes business to locate in Illinois. The tenets contained therein actually do the exact opposite. Illinois politicians seem to embrace only policies designed to make doing business in Illinois more expensive than surrounding states, much less states who show themselves to be hungry for development, unlike Illinois. The blue states continue to bleed jobs and taxpayers daily, even while pursuing policies that accelerate the exodus.
With so-called leaders like this, Illinois is doomed.
Holy crap. This report by a so-called neutral commission basically reads like a love letter to organized labor. With the exception of this from the manufacturers: Illinois manufacturers employ more than 560,000 women and men on factory floors today in jobs that average more than $88,000 in wages and benefits. Manufacturing contributes the single largest share of the state’s economy. Ninety-two percent of manufacturing workers have some form of employer-provided health care. While manufacturing, agribusiness, and the life science and healthcare are designated in the state’s economic focus, they are largely ignored in this report or deemed to no longer… Read more »