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There are people out there without jobs and the teachers are asking for more and more.
The city is growing broke, and people who have jobs are saying, "I won't go to work, because I want more".
Tell me, how can you support that?
39% of the teachers send their kids to private school. WHY? Every answer I come up with leads me to the same answer, because they feel the teachers in a private school, are doing a better job.
Sad.
very sad.
here are the statistics:
The unbounded GREED of chicago (and ALL other) socialist indoctrinators (what used to be jokingly called “teachers”):
- Turn Down $400 Million Deal, 16% Pay Raise…
- Have Highest Average Salary In Nation…
- Average $76,000 per year (highest salary in the US in ANY major city) BEFORE benefits…
- Before any further salary raise, they’re paid $8450 / month of their limited work-year, while the average American worker gets $3915 / month.
- Work the shortest time per year of teachers in any major US city…
- Get humongous, gold-plated benefits far in excess of anything offered in the private sector…
- 79% of Chicago 8th Graders “Not Proficient in Reading”…
Remember, “it’s for the children”
so those greedy teachers are demanding that people who make less than them pay them more or they won't teach their children? that teacher who said that the picket line was the most fun that she ever had teaching should be ashamed of herself, but i guess the euphoria of blackmailing a city got to her.
maybe rahmn will grow a backbone, but i am not counting on it.
surely he would rather capitulate because it isn't his money that he is throwing at those teachers, and i certainly hope other teachers would stand against this teacher blackmail tactic.
if he gives them anything else, he should make them work year round like the rest of us and make chicago a shining city on a hill.
The teacher's union and the city tenatively agree to a contract over the weekend. The contract offered guaranteed 2%-3% pay raises for the next 4 years, along with pay raises for time served and additional education. The city agreed to hire 600 additional teachers to cover the longer class days, allowing the teachers to keep their less than 6 hour class day. (Chicago currently has a 5.5 hour school day- the shortest in the country, and yet the Chicago teachers are some of the highest paid in the country.)
The union president called it a "good contract" over the weekend.
And then today the union announced it was going to continue the strike because according to the union president:
ETA: I have to say, it was refreshing to see the union president flat out say that it was all about how much the teachers could get from the taxpayers. She dropped all pretense of the strike being "for the kids."
rahm would be smarter if he did like they did in RI (Rhode Island) and fire them all, get rid of the union, then rehire the good teachers
The teacher's union and the city tenatively agree to a contract over the weekend. The contract offered guaranteed 2%-3% pay raises for the next 4 years, along with pay raises for time served and additional education. The city agreed to hire 600 additional teachers to cover the longer class days, allowing the teachers to keep their less than 6 hour class day. (Chicago currently has a 5.5 hour school day- the shortest in the country, and yet the Chicago teachers are some of the highest paid in the country.)
The union president called it a "good contract" over the weekend.
And then today the union announced it was going to continue the strike because according to the union president:
ETA: I have to say, it was refreshing to see the union president flat out say that it was all about how much the teachers could get from the taxpayers. She dropped all pretense of the strike being "for the kids."
The worst part of all this is that it is the kids who are suffering and the teachers originally said that they were striking for them. It is time to take away union rights for teachers or begin hiring replacements since they may find some who actually do care about the kids.
That looked like a pretty sizable raise since teachers' salaries are paid from taxes.
here are the statistics:
The unbounded GREED of chicago (and ALL other) socialist indoctrinators (what used to be jokingly called “teachers”):
- Turn Down $400 Million Deal, 16% Pay Raise…
- Have Highest Average Salary In Nation…
- Average $76,000 per year (highest salary in the US in ANY major city) BEFORE benefits…
- Before any further salary raise, they’re paid $8450 / month of their limited work-year, while the average American worker gets $3915 / month.
- Work the shortest time per year of teachers in any major US city…
- Get humongous, gold-plated benefits far in excess of anything offered in the private sector…
- 79% of Chicago 8th Graders “Not Proficient in Reading”…
Remember, “it’s for the children”
so those greedy teachers are demanding that people who make less than them pay them more or they won't teach their children? that teacher who said that the picket line was the most fun that she ever had teaching should be ashamed of herself, but i guess the euphoria of blackmailing a city got to her.
maybe rahmn will grow a backbone, but i am not counting on it.
surely he would rather capitulate because it isn't his money that he is throwing at those teachers, and i certainly hope other teachers would stand against this teacher blackmail tactic.
if he gives them anything else, he should make them work year round like the rest of us and make chicago a shining city on a hill.
Outstanding information. Now let me say that this sounds like the Wisconsin teachers the winter before last. This kind of crap is the very reason I got out of the union before I stopped teaching.
rahm would be smarter if he did like they did in RI (Rhode Island) and fire them all, get rid of the union, then rehire the good teachers
But Rahm is a union supporter for all other unions and would have remained that way about this bunch of whiners if they had accepted what they had worked and not backed off.
I think they figured old Rahm would just give em whatever they wanted. Rahm is saying wait a minute I'm the head cheese now and have to deal with reality, something these union cronies never think exists. It's all a phantom money tree to them.
I think they figured old Rahm would just give em whatever they wanted. Rahm is saying wait a minute I'm the head cheese now and have to deal with reality, something these union cronies never think exists. It's all a phantom money tree to them.
Rahm has raised property taxes to the legal limit to give them money.
There's just no more money.
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