Facing massive layoffs and outraged by the Mayor’s closing public schools while opening non-union charter schools, the Chicago Teachers Union House of Delegates unanimously endorsed a strike vote.
The decision about whether to strike will now go to the members who will vote over the period from December 9-11. The vote will last for three days to make sure that every member has a chance to vote.
Mike Klonsky says that Rahm Emanuel has become an albatross for the Democratic party.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Damn, that Chicago Teacher’s Union has balls, I love them. Why aren’t all teacher’s unions willing to put it all on the line for teachers. While teachers unions in Los Angeles and other areas go along to get along, Chicago leads.i totally support their action and view them as a model for an activist Union. If you aren’t willing to go all out for your cause, the preservation of public school education, what good are you UTLA.
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Totally agree. And when Mike Klonsky says Rahm is an albatross for the Dems, isn’t Obama the real albatross. Hillary and Bernie should be distancing themselves from him and his Chicago cronies, Arne and Rahm. Obama is beyond clueless, but hopefully Hillary and Bernie are still educable.
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Maybe Bernie is educable. Hillary, well … she’s a hedge funder and look at her record. She oversaw the standards and testing in Arkansas when Billy was governor. Then the Billaries brought this hair brained notion to the nation and we participated. Well, I didn’t. I refused. I saw the writing on the wall. And now, it’s worse than ever with the ESEA rewrite. Follow the $$$$$.
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The Chicago Teacher’s Union has been fighting since 1937.
From Wikipedia …
“The CTU united several teachers’ organizations in Chicago in the wake of a teachers’ revolt against banks during the Great Depression. It was chartered in 1937 as Local 1 of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), in which it played a founding role. It was the largest and most active AFT Local until the 1960s.[2] The CTU won collective bargaining rights in 1966 and conducted several strikes during the 1970s and 1980s. In September 2012, the union began its first strike in 25 years.”
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TAKE NOTE OF KENTUCKY TEACHERS PUTTING UP A FIGHT TO SAVE THEIR PENSION.
Pension panic!
Click on link below to contribute to the GoFundME campaign arranged by Erin Moss. If everyone contributes $300-$400 (a car repair, a doctor’s procedure, an insurance payment, a car payment) with about 30 “solid” plaintiffs, this would give us enough to get this suit rolling.
YOU ARE INVESTING IN SAVING 20 YEARS OF RETIREMENT: INVEST IN YOURSELF BY HELPING THIS CAMPAIGN!
https://www.gofundme.com/8xd95hb9
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Subject: RE: Thurs. Dec. 3; 3:30pm Mid-City Library
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 06:19:01 +0000
1250 Bardstown Road, same building as Baxter Avenue theaters.
Don’t forget!
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Subject: Thurs. Dec. 3; 3:30pm Mid-City Library
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 21:53:44 +0000
PLAINTIFFS’ MEETING: VERY IMPORTANT
We’ll confer with our attorney, Ted Lavit, on the up-coming underfunding lawsuit v. the Governor and legislature.
This is very important: now is the time to act!
Our pension is sinking by the day.
3:30, Thursday, December 3rd, Mid-City Mall Library, Bardstown Road, Louisville
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I daresay that Bernie is more educable than Hillary. She’s imbibed excessive Wall Street dollars and position statements
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True, Hillary is the system as is Bernie. I give Hillary brownie points for being a woman, a smart one but whether that informs her decision making in a positive way for females is questionable. To
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AMEN. No Hillary 4 me. Can’t trust her one iota.
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Obama’s Labor Dept put an op ed in a Michigan paper in support of collective bargaining. I find it borderline insulting how DC Democrats run this play every election cycle- they completely ignore wages- paychecks- until it comes time to get rank and file labor union members out to support them.
Right to work has passed in state after state and they did nothing. Now that it’s in place national Democrats write letters saying they object. My middle son is in a private sector labor union and he went out 2 weekends ago to canvass for a local Democrat in the city where he lives. He’s 21 and he can make his own political decisions but I really, really wanted to tell him “these politicians are using you- they could care less what happens to you at work- safety, wages, they can’t be bothered until it’s election time”. They don’t even enforce the labor laws we have- wage and hours and safety- let alone do anything proactive for working people.
The big lie is they have objections to public sector unions but support private sector unions. What that ignores is how the minute they break public sector unions they immediately go after private sector unions- that has happened in state after state. One, two- public sector then private sector- always.
http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2015/12/03/fight-economic-inequality-collective-bargaining/76661322/
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Agree. “Hope and Change” pretty much revealed itself as B.S. when the “shared sacrifice” of crash recovery turned into a systemic and aggressive indictment/undermining of public schools and public school teachers. Unbelievable that this POTUS would describe the mission of education to be anything close to market competition with India and anything other than bringing the hope and change he preached.
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“dmaxmj
December 5, 2015 at 10:24 am
Agree. “Hope and Change” pretty much revealed itself as B.S. when the “shared sacrifice” of crash recovery turned into a systemic and aggressive indictment/undermining of public schools and public school teachers.”
I’m convinced a big part of the focus on public schools as a cure for stagnant wages and income inequality was the Obama Administration’s refusal to actually address stagnant wages and income inequality. It was easier to blame public schools, who are sort of an all-purpose punching bag politicians hit over and over again.
It’s disgusting because it’s so clearly a dodge. They can’t talk about low wages without angering their donor base so they all point to public schools as the culprit.
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HRC and Rahm are thick as thieves. She’s standing by him in the McDonald case.
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