Posted on 09/14/2012 1:35:29 PM PDT by PBRCat
If the point of going on strike is to get a better deal than you would have received without it, then the Chicago Teachers Union is already a pretty clear winner this week in its confrontation with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his school board.
If the point of going on strike is to give voice to the frustrations of your members and to allow them to vent their anger, then you’d have to say the CTU was a runaway winner on that front as well.
And if the point of going on strike is to let your employer know you’re not going to be taken for granted in the future, then score another one for the CTU.
Are you detecting a pattern here?
As negotiators worked into the night to put what were expected to be the finishing touches on a contract settlement that union leaders could take to a vote Friday, it’s a tad premature to assess winners and losers not knowing the full parameters of a final deal.
But unless the union totally capitulates on the last major issue on the table, it’s hard to see how CTU President Karen Lewis and her members come out of this week as anything but a decisive winner.
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You mean I'm going to have to find new epithets besides scumsucking hyperflatulent communist butt-kissing suckup toady?
Obama wanted it over!
Obama wanted it over!
They were smart. They timed this thing to create maximum trouble for Obama in his re-election campaign. No doubt he called up Rahm and told him “whatever they want, just GIVE IT TO THEM and make this go away!” Could maybe have milked it for even more if the Mooslims did not come along and blow them off the front page.
Is my cynicism showing?
That is, until the precedent, that a strike will get you anything you want from Rahm is realized. And then there will be more strikes and more people hurt especially tax payers.
Hey but they elected a democrat. What'd you expect?
Of course the government teachers win.
What did anyone expect to happen?
Rahm’s reputation is going to take a serious hit. For all his faults, I always thought him to be a tough negotiator. Not so much anymore.
I am just wondering where the “Amen Chorus” that continually wants to find a way to cut California loose is today? We may have it bad here in California, but Illinois is the clear leader in the looney Left’s destructive acts. I guess it baffles all of you as to how to “carve out Illinois” from the rest of the country because it isn’t on a coast. You all need to get creative all of you who are “huddled in Texas.”
Chicagoans deserve this. But they should be made to pay for it themselves.
Condrags Chicago, your worst performing teachers are now the highest paid in the county, good job! Can’t wait to see all the new employers rushing to Chicago to hire all those can’t read, can’t write, can’t think students yall graduate every year. Oh and how many were murdered today in your fare city? Chicago the new Detroit.
The students should go on strike.
Those teachers are the lowest performing and most overpaid teachers in the country.
Rahm doesn’t mind spending YOUR money
This was all staged by the Democrats. Rahm appears to be a tough negotiator and the unions go marching around. Then, after considerable soundbites, management capitulates, the stupid teachers getting everything they wanted and the taxpayers are left holding the bag together with their illiterate children. Support the status quo.
Then they would offer to pay the kids too. jeesh
Union boss: See we would have never gotten this with the Republicans.
The reason Obama wanted it over is the teacher’s union was revealing that the real underlying inflation and the real lack of growth is incomes is turning America into a nation of welfare clients.
They were asking for 16% at 3 years of 5%+ each year.
That is about equal to core inflation in July, which was 4.8% annually, and the August numbers of total inflation pegged it at a 20% per year rate.
These teachers were about to reveal that the emperor had no clothes.
And, I’m not sure they even realized it.
Actually, this is how Detroit became Detroit.
The more the Left ‘wins” in taxation and cultural cleansing, the better the guarentee is that Chicago will fall.
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