Nothing screams relevance in today’s economic and political climate like a teacher’s union threatening a strike if their members aren’t given a 24 percent pay raise, and yet that is exactly what is happening in Chicago, the nation’s third largest school district.
Teachers are unhappy with a decision made last year by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to cancel their 4 percent pay raise while also asking them to work longer days. According to The Associated Press, “Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis announced the result of last week's balloting — nearly 90 percent of its 26,502 members voted to authorize a strike.” The strike will not happen over the summer; the union has decided to wait until school is in session to call the strike.It’s rather hard to make a coherent case for a 24 percent pay raise based on the previous year’s 4 percent pay raise being canceled, but that is precisely what the teachers union intends to push for. Of course, the union trots out one of their favorite talking points to justify the action, “We want a contract that gives Chicago students the school they deserve. So we call on CPSs to take this process seriously and negotiate with us in good faith with an eye on the real prize, our children.”
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8 comments:
Replace them. There are anough teachers looking for jobs. They obviously are living in a dream world if they expect this to fly.
Fire them all!!!!
They need reminding there is no money tree.
Then STRIKE!!!!!
No teacher in this country deserve a 24% pay raise. If the teaching was that great, we would not have GED programs.
Let them eat cake.
Sorry but I am tired of hearing teachers complain about their pay. Teachers get paid very well along with a very nice set of benefits. If they wanted to be rich they should picked a different proffesion with more inherant risks. As it is they took a job with unheard of job security a sickening 3 monthsof summer.
Stop your whining and teach. If you can't motivat yourself because you feel you are not being paid enough then quit and do something else.
Furthermore what "benefit" does paying the teachers more provide for the students? NOTHING. Absolulty nothing. Instead how about returning funding for things that do benefit the average student. Sports, Music, Art, Culture most of these are either gone completly or have beenseverly cutback or rely on the participants to "pay to play".
Instead we waste our money on "insert wasteful govt program here"
Correction to 3:49... if PARENTING was that great, we would not need a GED program.
Who do you think teaches the GED programs? Teacher! Duh...
Good, they do not teach anyway!
Public employee's don't deserve to have a golden parachute like corporate executives. These jobs like teachers and police are not supposed to be higher than middle class jobs. But now we have these people putting in 20 collecting retirement while getting another state job.
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