UPDATED: Illinois High School Replaces Striking Teachers And Kids Get Educated #CTUStrike
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | September 18th at 05:15 PM |
Update: Union officials agree to end Chicago teachers strike. On the outskirts of Chicago, where 400,000 Chicago kids and their parents are being held hostage and socialists seem to be calling the shots in the CTU strike, lies the city of Lake Forest, Illinois. As in Chicago, the teachers at Lake Forest High School are out on strike. However, unlike Chicago, Lake Forest High School | Read More »
Are Socialists Now Calling the Shots In The Chicago Teachers Strike? #CTUStrike
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | September 18th at 12:30 PM |
As the Chicago Teachers Union strike enters its second week of putting 400,000 Chicago kids on the streets, an interesting article in the Chicago Tribune indicates that CTU boss Karen Lewis may have lost control of her union: Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis and the union’s other top brass have spent months fueling their membership’s anger through street marches, meeting sit-ins and hostile rhetoric | Read More »
Doublecross! Chicago Teachers Continue To Hold Students & Parents Hostage For Second Week #CTUStrike
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | September 17th at 09:45 AM |
On Sunday, after abandoning their classrooms for the picket lines and putting 400,000 of Chicago’s schoolkids on the streets for a week, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis and her 800-member House of Delegates voted to reject a deal reached only days earlier, keeping 26,000 teachers on the streets and forcing Chicago parents to scramble with childcare issues or miss work for a second week in a | Read More »