With authorization, they can pull the trigger any time in the next few months:
- The Chicago Teachers Union says it will conduct a strike vote next week as contract negotiations grind on.
The union said the action doesn't mean teachers will immediately walk off their jobs. But CTU said it decided to take a strike authorization vote because teachers are “tired of being bullied, belittled and betrayed.”
- In recent weeks, both Emanuel and education groups that lobbied for the passage of the state law have fought efforts by the union to take a strike vote before the panel returns its findings.
The mayor reiterated that stand today.
“As I’ve always said, the school system, the schools and our educational system are for our school children, not for anybody else but our children," Emanuel said. "Second, there’s a fact-finder, independent arbitrator working to make sure that our school children do not get a strike, they get an education. And our teachers get the pay raise they deserve and worked for.
Two questions:
- Which Chicago Public School do Rahm's spawn attend?
- That "pay raise they deserved and worked for"? Who cancelled that?
We're just curious.