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Increase in work hours? The district is offering to raise their pay propotionately to work 183 days next year instead of 180? Yeah, that calls for retribution - no doubt about that!! Let's go out on strike and cost the school system 10 times that before we even agree to start talking about it - typical thug attitude.
The Chicago Teachers Union made headlines a few months ago when it was revealed that the union was demanding a 30 percent raise in its new contract proposal.
Such an enormous raise – regardless of the supposed justification – would be unthinkable in a district with a $665 million budget deficit and a 9.8 percent unemployment rate.
The school board countered with an offer of a two percent raise, which would still be a burden on the district’s overstretched budget.
As a result, both the CTU and Chicago Public Schools requested an “independent” fact finder to look at...
Why doesn't the school board just let the contract expire, then make one of the conditions of hiring new teachers that they sign an agreement saying they are not members of any teachers' union and will not join a teachers' union for the duration of their employment.
Remember when Ronald Reagan was threatened with the air traffic controllers' strike. He told them if they went on strike, he would fire them all. And those who went on strike were fired.