Kids going back to class on Wednesday. Doesn't seem like the union really got that much.
Like I don't want to say that this seems like one of the best unions of our day taking a big L, but this seems like one of the best unions of our day taking a big L.
Big time L.
When it came to individual school closures, CPS compromised with the CTU and agreed to shut down a building for at least five days if 30% or more of its teachers are absent for two consecutive days because of positive cases or quarantines, and if substitutes can’t get the absences under 25%. A school would also close if 40% of its students were quarantining.
That seems like a pretty high threshold.
Asked if President Joe Biden should use his “bully pulpit to tell the teachers union in Chicago to get back in the classroom,” she said Biden “has been very clear” that “we are on the side of schools being open. ... We will continue to convey that clearly.”
Of course it probably doesn't help when they really didn't have very many people on their side...:deeper-sadness:
CTU's reputation seems to be getting worse and worse around Chicago. This is purely anecdotal, mind you, but talking to friends and neighbors I really get the sense that the city's anti-union campaigning has be more successful over the last few years. Sucks man.
If you look at my post history the union had a MOA outlining the conditions for returning to remote learning, the board of Ed basically threw the agreement out.
If the board of Ed can unilaterally throw out any agreement with no consequence then what’s even the point of a union?
You mean the state is working to make unions an ineffective tool for exerting working power?? :thinkin-lenin:
Being positive about it - by just delaying the fucking COVID wave, the union probably saved literally dozens of human lives
WTF do they think is gonna happen? We hit 1.13 million cases yesterday
Libs you psycho fucks leave the kids alone
Can't do it. Admitting that schools aren't "literally the safest place for kids to be" means backtracking on the new narrative that Omicron is less severe, you only need 5 days off work if you get sick, and there's really no reason to stop doing everything like normal again. Hospitals? What hospitals?
If kids stay hime people have to stop going to work and then the economy will tank again. The ONLY thing the mobs having going for midterms is gonna be saying “look how much line went up”
Fuck Union if this is how they negotiate. We need a revolution, bring out the guillotine for the ghouls
This last week was an exercise in proving Lenin's point in real time. Did you see how the media and all levels of government jumped into action to crush this thing? It was kind of impressive, we don't get to see our institutions function so well these days :amerikkka-clap:
That MSNBC interview Lightfoot did was shameful. Even for MSNBC. It's not even trying to hide that it's the Democratic Party's propaganda arm anymore, it's just banking that none of its viewers care.
Tell me more. I don't want to watch it myself, but I want to hear more about the scab mayor. Someone close to me really likes her because I guess she had a take no shit attitude in her campaign (she just forces everyone else to eat shit).
She does have a take no shit attitude, I'll give her that. Out of all the big city mayors in the U.S., she's the most hardball. Her strategy with CTU was the same as it was with making the city's 2020 budget: Do it my way or go fuck yourself.
The interview itself is what you'd expect. The anchor was on Lightfoot's side and didn't even try to hide it. She kept lobbing Lightfoot softball questions about how much parents must be struggling to keep kids at home and how much kids must miss school. Setting Lightfoot up to look like the school system's savior.
