Rahm Emanuel Planning Lawsuit to Force Chicago Teachers Back to Work (Reagan, legal)
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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:
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"Our members are not happy," Lewis said. "They want to know if there is anything more they can get."
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."
So typical, two right wing posters chime in, giving us their educated legal analysis of the issue before the court.
Isn't great how they just come on wanting the rule of law to be followed regardless of how their side would be effected?
That's why this country is doing so well. People respect the law over ideology.
That's why they are Conservatives. Because they respect the law so much.
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.
So typical, two right wing posters chime in, giving us their educated legal analysis of the issue before the court.
Isn't great how they just come on wanting the rule of law to be followed regardless of how their side would be effected?
That's why this country is doing so well. People respect the law over ideology.
That's why they are Conservatives. Because they respect the law so much.
Did you somehow overlook the part where the teachers were trying to extract as much as they could from taxpayers to pay for their largesse? I thought teaching was all about "the kids." Yeah....out the window that theory just went.
That you would lay this at the feet of "right wing posters" smacks of liberal idicocy beyond what we normally see. You simply can't muster the courage to denounce the teachers union can you?
Shameless and shameful in the same freaking post. Good job.
This is too funny. The unions trying to eat one of their own who turns around and now wants to sue em. Old Rahm didn't know what he was getting himself into fixing that election did he? LOL
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