Divide and Conquer Part II
As predicted here yesterday, Rahm exploits the opening:
And it's going like clockwork.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Saturday touted his administration's success in getting three Chicago elementary schools to agree to extend their day by 90 minutes and urged other schools to follow suit.
Teachers at the three Chicago Public Schools campuses who agreed to opt out of their union contract in exchange for 2 percent bonuses "voted right for our children's future," Emanuel said during a news conference before the 14th Chicago Football Classic at Soldier Field.
"The teachers did right by their profession and they did right by the children that they teach," Emanuel said while surrounded by several schoolchildren in cheerleading outfits and band uniforms.
And it's going like clockwork.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
116 Comments:
Using the "children" as tools.
Why doesn't the alderman and the ex-mayor do the right thing and give up their body guards and drivers and city perks for the safety of the children too.
IDK, maybe there's a no trespassing sign on that eh?
Do the right thing!
shame how someone will sellout for an ipad. principal in this case violated the CBA and had scabs voting.
Strike! At least they can, we can not. I will not their picket line when they strike none of us should. Unions built this City anyone who thinks different is a complete idiot.
http://www.ag.state.mi.us/opinion/datafiles/2010s/op10339.htm
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A union contract is not only a contract between the City and the teachers union; it also binds the members of the union.
The Chicago Teachers Union should censure any members who 'choose' to waive their contractual rights and should move to eject them from the union. They should also remind those teachers that they have no further representation for legal matters and no rights to the perks and benefits given to union members.
And the FOP should do the same. You're either a union member, or you're not. You don't get to pick and choose at whim.
So, the teachers were supposed to get a raise, but Emanuel said there is NO money for it.
The same teachers refused to work a longer workday without additional compensation.
Emanuel offers the teachers a two percent pay 'raise' in exchange for working a longer day.
So, the teachers received their contractually guaranteed raise, after all. Except they have to work a longer day to get what they already had in their contract. Huh?
And, of course, the money to fund this has now magically reappeared, when only a month ago it didn't exist.
These completely stupid people are teaching our children?
YEP, WIKI not much is known about his formal education or what qualifues him to be in his position to talk about fire/police issues either.............SCC lets keep pressure on this Fuc$$k 50= 25 campagin
Fools. No wait...SELLOUTS!
Rahmballerina ought to think of teacher's children. He is taking food off their table..Hypocritical bitch.
Honestly, I'm the husband of a teacher. I will personally picket these three scumbag school employees myself. Anyone with me, hit me up at cpsgarbage.yahoo.com. I'm looking for a Friday protest. Mike Shields, We need a symphty strike or we are all gonna fall!
Never forget, the Hamster is a very treacherous little bastard. Don't turn your back on him. He'll be coming for us next.
I think union employees who opt out of contracts should be outsed from the union.
THE UNION SHOULD LAUNCH THE TEACHERS WHO VOTED.
R CONTRACT STATES THAT WE CANT MAKE SIDE DEALS.
BUT THE SGT LTS. CAPTAINS CAN.
JUST WATCH AS THEY SELL US OUT THEY R THE WEAK SPOT.
2:48 is correct.
They need to discipline the renegade scabs who sold out for a fucking Ipad and $800.
FOP and PBPA will need to do the same when he tries to divide us with some hustle.
Unity, discipline, and an undying hatred for the plutocrats who run and ruined this city and nation are in order.
Wake up, you are fighting for your families and this nation's future.
the added time is so they can have supper at school. you can bet they will all be picked up in a timely manner. or they want the teachers to help with home work. ma and pa been working all day and are exhausted.
It might be time for another march around city hall. That was a good time when we did it for Shortshanks, now lets do it for Ballerino.
SCC, this is as good a place as any to start working on one. Cutting 193 million from the police budget will endanger the public and they need to know it. A march is a great start.
I encourage all Chicago Police Officers to march with at the schools in which the teachers sold out their union. This is very important to all of us. If Emmanuel is allowed to break the teachers union and that's what thgis is all about, he can break all other unions. 4:37am, tell us where and when.
One of the schools is the Schiller School, 640 West Scott. Once within the heart and shadows of six Cabrini-Green high rise projects (now all demolished) it's no surprise that they grabbed that free money and ran with it.
They have a lot of experience in that area.
025 3rd Watch- Why is management fucking with the minds of the young aggressive officers in 025 3rd watch? We have done everything they wanted from us. We give good activity and then Capt. K.B. will dump most of us to 1st watch.
The teachers union should take back the momentum by taking a strike vote ASAP. Put this treacherous little POS on the defensive. If they don't act immediately it will be to their detriment.
For all of you who want to waive your hard fought for contractual rights, (CPS teachers and CPD Officers), you are dancing with the devil and he will come back latter to stab you in the back with his pitchfork. By then you will have harmed yourselves (and all the other union members) to such a degree that you will not have the protections you need to fall back on. Mark my words!
We cant agree on where to go to lunch and you want unity? We sell out for the right to wear jeans and a baseball cap backwards. And we talk about the teachers at least they sold out for some coin, we do it for clothing options come on. BOHICA and get used to it, because it has not even started yet boys and girls.
rahmbo got 30 out of 24,000 teachers to jump the fence--- hardly a landslide victory on his part--- sgt les, put this kid over your lap and swat his behind, maybe it will bring him back to reality.....
Union teachers cannot settle separately with the city in violation of the contract.
When I was in grade school my hours were 8:00 to 3:30. over the past 40 years teaches unions have reduced hours of school by 7.5 hrs!
do you really feel this is an issue?
I have been on the police dept. for over 20 years and have seen teachers and administrators reduce their duties and pass them on to the c.p.d. they have created a headache for us by creating policies that we the police must handle. they have "created" jobs that are wasteful and costly.The principals run the second watch with a bunch of bull shit attentions that create back logs and jeopardize the safety of officers.
The Command response was to make school officers to deal with their made up bullshit.In response these school officers,in most schools, have generated work in order to keep them off the street and to justify their position. Police officers that are school carshave meetings with staff and parents because little Johnie is a fuck-up, wasting more police man power.
manpower in the second watch is depleted by at least 10 p/o's and a sgt.in order to deal with school administrators problems. Why does the administrators feel because little fuck-up gets killed at 1:00 a.m. ITS A SCHOOL PROBLEM? Face it people its a parents problem.
Teachers are a bunch of liberals that feel that they have the knowledge and the means to help the neighborhoods in their school district. Their job is to teach the three R's. and with what I see their three R's mean raise,relax and retire. Yes their are great teaches however the teachers union has kept a lot of teachers in a job that they our to incompetent to handle. In conclusion fuck them!!
The Democrats are famous for using "The Children" as props to justify their actions. If you will recall the fiasco at Waco, where dozens of men, women and children were cooked alive; the U.S. Atorney General and President justified what they did, in the name of "The Children". Rahm would become Chief of Staff to that President, and that heartless administration. Daley was just a criminal and thug, this guy is something worse, far worse: this bastard is sinister.
OT ... Big command changes this coming week.
Call them what they are, union breaking scabs, and then throw them out and picket those schools until they turn union again.
Rahm the Terminator has FOP in his sites after CTU! Daley walks away with all the money and Rat Boy cries poor mouth! Skyway and Parking Meter money GONE! Pension money all over the country is being "drooled" over by every politician! Trillions!
This little idiot must not have paided attention to other big cities that have tried this longer baby sitting service. Los Angeles was one those cities which scrapped this child day care service a few years ago.this shit does not change the fact that parents MUST be held countable instead of teachers. stupid politicians blowing hot air
wisconsin here we come! rahm is about to ask for givebacks from the cpd and cfd if none given, layoffs!
Teachers didn't get their raise. They were supposed to get 4%. Now the scab principals of these small schools will get 2% for working 90 minutes more, which works out to about $3 bucks an hour over the school year. Try and find someone to watch your kids for $3 bucks an hour. Also, to strike they now need 75% of the members to vote yes, as compared to the 50 + 1 majority. That's something Quinn and the Legislature changed this year because they knew this was coming. It's going to be impossible to get that many to vote, let alone vote yes. Don't be surprised in Jan when they say they can't afford our 1% raise.
When push comes to shove inregards to our contract, the F.O.P. needs to came out publicly and say, "Do not be proactive, just answer calls and perform you job required duties." Then we have to adhere to it! Not like the last time after we walked around the Daley Center (or where ever it was)to show unity, but the majority of us were still bringing in numbers. We just need to be on the same page. They think we are all lazy and anyone can do it, we have to prove them wrong. But, we still need to perform our job rejirements, it's not a strike!
I think it was a department in New Jersey or Phili a couple of years ago, when the city wanted to cut their pay and lay off, the chief told all of his officers to park in the lot and only leave to answer calls. After your done with your call, come back to the lot. 3 days later mediation over.
Something I don't understand and don't blast me for this because these few sentences and the Rahm media spin does not fully explain it.
"Teachers at the three elementary Chicago Public Elementary Schools Campuses..."
All of them? If any of them does not want the deal what happens to them? Do they get transferred to Englewood?
"...who agreed to opt out of their union contract in exchange for 2 percent bonuses "
Will some CPS worksites be union and some not? If you want to work at the "cherry picking" college prep school you give up your union.
I am no union attorney but this stinks. Can you imagine this for CPD, wanna work the airport, or some unit, OK give up your union.
As a sign of unity, all tact and gang and gun enforcement teams along with all administrative personnel should wear uniforms to work.
Nothing in the GOs prevents you from doing so. It would show that we are all sticking together.
"For the children". What a crock of shit! It is all about the money and Rahmster's quest to be the first Jewish President.
There will not be meaningful progress until the mindset in the black community is changed. Education and the nuclear family are foreign concepts to them as a whole.
I agree with the others, those teachers should be censured by the CTU and kicked out of the union, but still pay their dues.
The FOP has done it on occasion with those officers who acted in similar manner.
People in this city are stupid. Rham said this is exactly what he was going to do. And he is doing it. And people are selling out for 800 bucks? Gotta make dat car note! I cannot wait to leave this cesspool.
Sincerely,
michael hunt
To 4.06am......Rahm has stated all but he doesn't give a shit about city employees. Read the missive he sent out saying in essence that: "it isn't my job to preserve the city payroll, so I'm gonna mess with your salary and benefits"
He could give a fuck about us. Especially those who didn't support him as a group. Just look at the lack of services in Wards that went to Chico, especially S&S and Police/Fire.
To 4.06am......Rahm has stated all but he doesn't give a shit about city employees. Read the missive he sent out saying in essence that: "it isn't my job to preserve the city payroll, so I'm gonna mess with your salary and benefits"
He could give a fuck about us. Especially those who didn't support him as a group. Just look at the lack of services in Wards that went to Chico, especially S&S and Police/Fire.
Whether you like teachers or not, they had a 4% raise in their contract and Rahm took it away saying they did nothing to earn it. The public bought into it. Now the table is being set to take away uniform allowance and duty availability - the argument will be we did nothing to earn it. Again, the public will buy into it.
Look around at you neighbors, they are being laid off from work or losing their jobs. You think they give a rat's ass if we lose duty availability, uniform allowance, or Rahm chips away at the # of p-days, bf-days and other "perks" we get. They see us as still having a job and insurance.
Sure the public doesn't want police and firemen to get hurt, but they still are not going to sympathize with us for what Rahm will refer to as extras we were given - and did nothing to earn.
Rahm is using this office to move on to bigger things. To claim he made the city sound financially will be want sets him above the rest. 4 yrs from now when he is running against Kirk for senate, people won't remember how he did it, just that he did it.
Daley did not need the police and fire vote, you think he does, you think he cares......
Come June 2012, everything in the contract will be on the table and negotiable. As far as Rahm is concerned, this was Daley's contract, not his. We will have to fight to keep everything we have. Bottom line, the city has top notch lawyers and labor negotiators on their team, we have a bunch of coppers and their friends who are lawyers who represent us.
Don't kid yourself, the city's team is already putting together a strategy and listing our weaknesses.
They have the press in their pocket and more slanted stories will come out over the next nine months concerning what we were given and did nothing to earn.
Limiting time due on weekends will be next.
W/C will lose that ability, all slips will be approved by D/C - and that will be monitored by Comptat, God help the D/C that gives a lot of people time due on a Saturday night and the District goes up for grabs.
He willbe held to the fire at the next compstat meeting justifying the time due (this per a little birdie at HQ)
Ah ha ha. Ken Barnass sucks
In All Fairness to Unions (as I am in one myself)...
The Teachers need to F'ing Remember they took that Job to TEACH. You don't become a Teacher because you expect to make 50k+ a year.
And the Teachers Union needs to take action against Each School that held a Non-Union sanctioned Vote on this topic.
As for the poster that said "Unions Built this City" lets be honest..
Unions Ruined this City.
McPier comes to Mind on Prices of stuff thanks to Obscene Union Wages....3 buck+ for a 20 ounce Soda Bottle anyone at McCormick.
Union Officials are out for their own and fuck the membership.
Doesn't matter if they are AFLCIO or ASFME or COP or FOP or SEIU or whatever....
9/04/2011 02:56:00 AM
No you dumbass....their contract stipulated a 4% raise...not a 2%.
The schools that Rahm and Company are lauding for 'playing ball' took it up the ass for a lower increase to work More Hours.
Broken Promises
Burke , Daley , Neeley still receive bodyguards , drivers and city cars on taxpayers back.
No reduction in aldermen .
Gold Braid Pension still here.
3 men still changing light bulbs.
$84 a year property tax increase.
More police on the street , that's a promise he kept , but let's get rid of 1/2 of exempts and all captains .
I wonder why no mention of the person shot in the 6200 blk addison this morning and a couple weeks ago at Newport/Lavergne? The media can publish stories of alderman beale whining to take police officers where they are " wanted and but not needed" and put them where they are "needed" This is an area according to beale where they are not needed and look what is happening....Why is it nobody gets it???????
This little Midget bastard is a master of manipulation. He knows all the tricks of Washington spin. He already has the media bullied and eating out of his greasy crooked hand. He can make a pile of shit look like the Hope Diamond. What will bring him down is a huge STRIKE by teachers and/or other city unions. Nothing like the halt of city services to show the citizens exactly what he is. A selfish, corrupt, immoral little prick. Stop this mutt now or it will be too late. He could care less if Chicago becomes another Detroit. He has his sights on higher office over our dead bodies.
Have no doubt what Emmanuel wants. COMPLETE CONTROL! He will make The Daley Crime Family look like Santa Clause 24/7 365. Everyone will fear him. No one will challange anything he wants because it will be good for us. The reason Chicagoans are so confused right now is because the Daley Crime Family has had us over the barrel cornholing us for the last 22 years. In a Democracy the PEOPLE rule. The PEOPLE/VOTERS decide what they want. Not some little shithead Dictator who thinks he can step on our heads to go live in the White House. We all know about his ruthless acts while in Washington as Obama's henchman/hatchetman. Says a lot about Obama also. Put this Rat in his place now...right at the start. Wholly support any strke. DO NOT cross a picket line. Rahm is coming after the Police and Fire next year. Have no doubt this will be a much different job if he gets his way. WAKE UP OFFICERS!
But of course many of you have worked CHA or CTA Special emp.) at straight pay for years. Go ahead-give us the excuses why it was OK to do so.
It's not just union contracts that are failing it looks as though the entire social contract is falling apart. Look around.
You are all a bunch of idiots. You cry about how the democrats and Obama are a bunch of socialists and communists. Don't you realize that labor unions are the ultimate form of communism. It rewards those who do NO work with the same benefits as those who work hard. That is what you guys support? Then why do you bitch about clout babies, dogs, and house mice all the time? Fuck all the unions! The CTU, FOP, SEIU and all of them are a bunch of communist fucks!
025 3rd Watch- Why is management fucking with the minds of the young aggressive officers in 025 3rd watch? We have done everything they wanted from us. We give good activity and then Capt. K.B. will dump most of us to 1st watch.
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HA HA HA HA...hold on my stomach hurts.....HA HA HA
Hey 9/04/2011 08:53:00 AM,
As a husband of a CPS school teacher and a P.O. myself, GO FUCK YOURSELF. Go ahead and tell me that you work a solid 8 hours and never take no ducks and I'll call you a liar. The decisions made by the CPS Board of Education affect us all and the teachers have to follow them. What do you know about a teachers life? If you believe that they are a bunch of liberals and only work 7.5 hours then you probably live in some plastic bubble with your head up your ass. Yes there are some idiot teachers like some idiot police officers but the majority of them actually care about the kids but their hands are tied with administration policy just like ours.If you can read and write then you should thank a teacher and get some help for your other issues.
This little idiot must not have paided attention to other big cities that have tried this longer baby sitting service. Los Angeles was one those cities which scrapped this child day care service a few years ago.this shit does not change the fact that parents MUST be held countable instead of teachers. stupid politicians blowing hot air
9/04/2011 10:04:00 AM
You must not have paid attention in English class. WTF is paided attention and held countable?
I would not put your jobs in the same category as the teachers. THey are very different. VERY. I say this as a past CPS teacher who left the system disgusted with the lack of professionalism by many (not ALL) of the those in the sytem.
You work longer hours, are put in more dangerous situtuations, and are asked quite a bit more. The teachers are in cusy positions and are paid quite well for what they do.
FIGHT your fight. I am behind the CPD. MOre officers, fully armed, fully protected, fully supported.
signed- a chicago taxpayer
Yes he is trying to do just that. I heard from a friend of mine that he had Alderman Nick Sposato of the 26th ward he is the firefighter who won the last election go to the CFD Local 2 executive board meeting to try to talk about some cuts that Rahm would like to see made within the CFD.
Be careful of this man. Remeber he worked hand in hand with a president who was known as "Slick Willie". They were 2 pees in a pod.
OT ... Big command changes this coming week.
9/04/2011 09:20:00 AM
Yea ok. Aren't you the same guy who has been posting for over a year that big command changes are coming? Yet I haven't seen anything worth getting excited about.
he is coming after the police unions, coppers can't stick together and will sell out on the next contract, i am sure glad I got my time in and can leave anytime. He will manipulate the police and we will take a pay cut by the time he is done with us, there is are many many youing coppers who want to keep their jobs.
I think it was a department in New Jersey or Phili a couple of years ago, when the city wanted to cut their pay and lay off, the chief told all of his officers to park in the lot and only leave to answer calls. After your done with your call, come back to the lot. 3 days later mediation over.
9/04/2011 11:28:00 AM
Well that was somewhere else and this is Chicago. Our bosses have no balls and would never stick by us to do this. That might fuck up them moving up the ladder to the gold braid!
As a sign of unity, all tact and gang and gun enforcement teams along with all administrative personnel should wear uniforms to work.
Nothing in the GOs prevents you from doing so. It would show that we are all sticking together.
9/04/2011 12:19:00 PM
See that is the problem. We don't stick together for anything. Do you believe the tact teams would give up the almighty jeans and baseball cap to put on the lowly blue shirt to stick together. Don't think so. Most tact guys nowadays don't have enough time on the job to know any better.
The Teachers need to F'ing Remember they took that Job to TEACH. You don't become a Teacher because you expect to make 50k+ a year.
Many teachers make well above 50k and are only required to work approx 180 days/year for 6.25 hrs/day. Many put in a lot of additional time, but not all of them. And some stay after school for various meetings, professional development, and tutoring and are paid extra for that.
Most people in the corporate world work 40-50+ hr weeks year-round for less money. They also don't get additional compensation for staying late for meetings, etc. They get paid the same salary whether they work 40 or 60 hrs per week. The teacher's union is out of touch with the reality of most working people.
What does "BOHICA" mean?
The only hope is for the union bosses to get out the word to the public that more hours should equate to more pay! Rahm has no money alledgely but now throws 2%! This plan was supposed to take place next year but Rahm "hired" some inside school personnel to jump ship! Divide and conquer! Inside the Trojan Horse is Rahm crushing everything in sight! FOP is now in sight!
Hey 8:18....
Because he can! Wake the fuck up.
McPier comes to Mind on Prices of stuff thanks to Obscene Union Wages....3 buck+ for a 20 ounce Soda Bottle anyone at McCormick.
Union Officials are out for their own and fuck the membership.
Doesn't matter if they are AFLCIO or ASFME or COP or FOP or SEIU or whatever
The proce of food at Mccormick has NOTHING to do with unions and EVERYTHING to do with greed! they jack up the prices and stick it to the conventioneers; same with the hotels, big convention comes in and the room are suddenly $300 a night, also NOTHING to do with unions. What they fail to tell everyone when they blame the unions for everything down there is that when there is no convention in town, those greedy union members they talk about are sitting home, unemployed, until the next show comes in; which is why they make the money they do, for the crazy hours worked there; they could be off for a week or so at a time, then a small show comes in and they work 2-3 days, then off again for a week.
TO: "Anonymous said...
Yes he is trying to do just that. I heard from a friend of mine that he had Alderman Nick Sposato of the 26th ward he is the firefighter who won the last election go to the CFD Local 2 executive board meeting to try to talk about some cuts that Rahm would like to see made within the CFD.
Be careful of this man. Remeber he worked hand in hand with a president who was known as "Slick Willie". They were 2 pees in a pod.
9/04/2011 05:31:00 PM"
You may not know what you are talking about and you certainly did not write it properly.
Lieutenant Nick Sposato CFD has a good rep with his neighbors in the Mont Clair-Galewood neighborhood and it is the 36th not the 26th Ward.
He beat John Rice; the Daley appointed to replace Alderman William W. P. (Zoning Board rubber stamp for Sergio & Banks Real Estate) Banks in a runoff. Rice's police advisor was the infamous retired Lieutenant John (Thanksgiving dinner anyone?) Finnegan. Rice said, "We can't hire more police we just gave them a 2% raise!"
We are so glad we dumped Rice/Finnegan and we think that a decent guy like Sposato would be the first one to go if we went from 50 to 25 Aldermen. The maps would be redrawn to be sure that this area was now a large Black or Hispanic ward so they could keep a white alderman elsewhere.
Here are some of the benefits Alderman enjoy that have not been cut back as they are asking us to sacrifice:
1. Part-time job (they also have lucrative side businesses, such as Beales interest in Security company.)
2. Over $100,000 for this part-time job as opposed to our salaries which are way below $100,000 for full-time employment.
3. Voted themselves a 6% raise as opposed to our 1% this year....again for our full-time job.
4. Aldermen receive an 80% pension after a mere 10 years of service. Police officers receive 75% after 30 years of service.
5. Aldermen pay into social security, Police Officers do not. Our pension is all we get.
6. Health insurance upon retirement.
Not sure which of these benefits the Aldermen would like to cut or sacrifice, oh right, NONE of them. Feel free to add more...
What till he tries that with you guys. You know he will offer some better transfers, more money or stripes. Look out for the Basards
HATER said...
THE UNION SHOULD LAUNCH THE TEACHERS WHO VOTED.
R CONTRACT STATES THAT WE CANT MAKE SIDE DEALS.
BUT THE SGT LTS. CAPTAINS CAN.
JUST WATCH AS THEY SELL US OUT THEY R THE WEAK SPOT.
9/04/2011 07:21:00 AM
Interesting how in their contracts, I believe their allotted days off such as vacation days etc., are full days. They don't have to put time in to make up the difference such as po's. Smart.
I can't help but notice an influx of outsiders posting on the blog. My guess is that Rahm has employed people to spread his propaganda on this site.
So if that's the case, I guess it means this blog may not be that insignificant after all.
OT-
ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERY ON NORTHSIDE OF 016 @1845 Hrs.
3 MALE BLACKS.... they're here.... and this is where Escumuel & McStupid wanna take more police out of to go keep the ghetto safe. These scumbags come to where they've taken the police from, and the political liars try and claim the vermin don't go far from home to take other people's shit!
Taxpayers fucked, Non-taxpayers given the police service.
025 3rd Watch- Why is management fucking with the minds of the young aggressive officers in 025 3rd watch? We have done everything they wanted from us. We give good activity and then Capt. K.B. will dump most of us to 1st watch.
********** quit crying ***** 1st watch in 25 isn't that bad. It has some of the most aggressive and proactive officers on the watch. What because you are a worker you are too good for midnights? Do you feel entitled to work third watch ? If that's the case bid out to area two and you will have no problem making it on third watch. trust me I worked there and you have NO clue how fortunate you are to be working up north.If you think you have it so bad stop and concider that some where in a 3 ,4,5,6,7 ,11,15 a copper is stuck there trying to bid out but there is no bids in a half decent district like 1,2,8,9,10,12,13,14,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24, and yes the 25th district.
Hey 9/04/2011 08:53:00 AM,
As a husband of a CPS school teacher and a P.O. myself, GO FUCK YOURSELF. Go ahead and tell me that you work a solid 8 hours and never take no ducks and I'll call you a liar. The decisions made by the CPS Board of Education affect us all and the teachers have to follow them. What do you know about a teachers life? If you believe that they are a bunch of liberals and only work 7.5 hours then you probably live in some plastic bubble with your head up your ass. Yes there are some idiot teachers like some idiot police officers but the majority of them actually care about the kids but their hands are tied with administration policy just like ours.If you can read and write then you should thank a teacher and get some help for your other issues.
9/04/2011 05:13:00 PM
I hope that you didn't think my post was to insult your wife or profession. While they enjoyed a 4%raise on their contract where was their concern over our 2% raise?
the Chicago Teachers Union ha been backing poor teachers for years. I bet your wife can tell you stories of such idiots. most teachers are off weekends , summers, holiday breaks and are also granted sick and personal time off.
I guess you must be a chosen one from a unit , desk or tact because brother I and most other district patrol people do work a eight hours a day, every fucking day! and the answer to your next thought is YES I do work. I don't have the get up and go attitude that I once had but, I still can make a good arrest in between my missions, calls and dealing with the schools.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OT ... Big command changes this coming week.
9/04/2011 09:20:00 AM
Yea ok. Aren't you the same guy who has been posting for over a year that big command changes are coming? Yet I haven't seen anything worth getting excited about.
9/04/2011 05:33:00 PM
Let's see I wear a BLUE SHIRT and could careless who is a commander gold star asswipe!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Broken Promises
Burke , Daley , Neeley still receive bodyguards , drivers and city cars on taxpayers back.
No reduction in aldermen .
Gold Braid Pension still here.
3 men still changing light bulbs.
$84 a year property tax increase.
More police on the street , that's a promise he kept , but let's get rid of 1/2 of exempts and all captains .
9/04/2011 01:58:00 PM
Burkes guys are gone in academy retread class now, but neely still has her D-3 people the lapa hdo guy Marty with the wife running a dental lab that was caught is a huge scandal not long ago! The crime wave continues!
Lets get rid of all the exempts, and captains? You are soft as shit. Get rid of the fucking flower pots, the fucking fences, the fucking free shit for all the do nothing assholes in this city, the 26 street lights at every intersection, the 8 street signs at every intersection. The police department is not the place to look to cut personnel.
You say no one works 8 hours but you? Fuck you proove it. I work 8hours every day. If I do take time my slip gets put in and you know what I dont give a fuck.
Any asshole cop who wants to cut white shirts is an idiot. One day they are gonna need to make bosses and the only one getting fucked is the blue shirt because there will be less positions to be filled. I know lets cut all D2 spots too. asshole
"Rahmballerina ought to think of teacher's children. He is taking food off their table..Hypocritical bitch.
9/04/2011 04:06:00 AM"
Would that be the same teachers children that are going to private schools or suburban schools (with a phony address)because their parents workplace is not good enough for them, but is good enough for your kids?
Could that be because their day ends almost two hours before EVERY other school district, yet they are among the highest paid 'educators' in the nation?
Lewis is going to take down every other city union, in the name of union solidarity, to keep her nest feathered.
"025 3rd Watch- Why is management fucking with the minds of the young aggressive officers in 025 3rd watch? We have done everything they wanted from us. We give good activity and then Capt. K.B. will dump most of us to 1st watch."
Tough shit young blood. It's called seniority. When you get some time on the job you'll appreciate it. Most of us all had to do our time in the barrel of midnights. No sympathy here.
"Anonymous said...
OT ... Big command changes this coming week.
9/04/2011 09:20:00 AM
Yea ok. Aren't you the same guy who has been posting for over a year that big command changes are coming? Yet I haven't seen anything worth getting excited about.
9/04/2011 05:33:00 PM"
Hey! Sooner or later he's gonna be right; just like a stopped clock is right twice a day. Then it'il be, "Told ya' so!"
When I was in grade school my hours were 8:00 to 3:30. over the past 40 years teaches unions have reduced hours of school by 7.5 hrs!
Teachers are a bunch of liberals that feel that they have the knowledge and the means to help the neighborhoods in their school district. Their job is to teach the three R's. and with what I see their three R's mean raise,relax and retire. Yes their are great teaches however the teachers union has kept a lot of teachers in a job that they our to incompetent to handle. In conclusion fuck them!!
9/04/2011 08:53:00 AM
You are obviously a victim of the Chicago Public School system. If the "teaches unions," as you called it, reduced the school day by 7.5 hours from your 8:00 to 3:30, they would only be going to school for, let's see, NO hours.
Learn to count, Rahmulan. Then learn the difference between "their" and "there" and get back to us. And by the way, not all "teaches" are liberal. My family has teachers and they are VERY conservative, so go take your nitwit pro-Ballerino bullshit and stick it where the sun doesn't shine.
And while you're at it, go fetch your fucking shine box. You'll need it for extra cash when Ballerino takes your pay and benefits. Now go fuck yourself you stupid, uneducated, half illiterate piece of ass kissing shit. You are the fucking problem.
I have no idea if this is true...
Taken from Detective Shavedlockcock blog:
New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg is not going to run for re-election.
The New York City Democratic Machine is going to run long time beloved NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly as the Democratic Mayoral Candidate.
Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy will leave the Chicago Police Department to become the new NYPD Police Commissioner. The Democratic power brokers had McCarthy be made the Chicago Police Department Superintendent so his move back to take over NYPD's police force would appear to be a lateral move by a man with experience as a big city police boss.
Michele Obama's cousin, Michael Shields, took a $50,000.00 a year pay cut to come back to the Chicago Police Department last month because as soon as McCarthy leaves for New York, Michael Shields will be named the new Chicago Police Superintendent. Thus his $50,000.00 pay cut from the Chicago Public Schools magically turns in to a raise with the Superintendent's yearly salary.
I read that there was a turnout of 17 fathers at the million father march yesterday on the south side. Impressive.
We should distance ourselves as far away from the teachers union. Remember these are the people who send their students to protest the police for credit. We have nothing in common w teachers. They have never missed a birthday, Christmas, new years eve or a BBQ. Don't be mislead into feeling sorry for them.
Anonymous said...
OT ... Big command changes this coming week.
9/04/2011 09:20:00 AM
Yea ok. Aren't you the same guy who has been posting for over a year that big command changes are coming? Yet I haven't seen anything worth getting excited about.
9/04/2011 05:33:00 PM
Of course you're not excited. You're not part of them.
What does "BOHICA" mean?
9/04/2011 06:09:00 PM
Bend Over Here It Comes Again
Anonymous said...
The Teachers need to F'ing Remember they took that Job to TEACH. You don't become a Teacher because you expect to make 50k+ a year.
Many teachers make well above 50k and are only required to work approx 180 days/year for 6.25 hrs/day. Many put in a lot of additional time, but not all of them. And some stay after school for various meetings, professional development, and tutoring and are paid extra for that.
Most people in the corporate world work 40-50+ hr weeks year-round for less money. They also don't get additional compensation for staying late for meetings, etc. They get paid the same salary whether they work 40 or 60 hrs per week. The teacher's union is out of touch with the reality of most working people.
9/04/2011 06:07:00 PM
No offense but when did the corporate world become the best and most beneficial employment model for the public sector, e.g. police, fire, schools? I mean they didn't share the profits when they were rolling high. They didn't demand that we follow their model then, instead they looked down at us a the blue-collar workers. I just don't get this overwhelming desire to equalize the public sector to the losses the corporate sector has sustained. Is it just plain old jealousy?
Watch if this doesn't happen...
Those three scab schools will now get all the best goodies...
New computers...
New furniture...
New air conditioning...
...and I would be willing to bet a lot more police protection.
All the rest Rahm will say to the rest, "Screw you! Don't like it you get junk."
He will get the parents to say, "You greedy teachers! You're as bad as those cops!"
Or more likely, "¡Usted maestros son glotones! ¡Es tan malo como esos policías! "
I have a really basic question. How can a school vote to change its hours? Can schools then vote to shorten the school day? Just doesn't smell right.
People are commenting and implying that, because people in the private sector are taking pay cuts and losing jobs, governmental employees should partake of the misfortunes. Also, a few people are making arguments grounded on socialism and fairness. Get this; governmental employees are not the direct cause of the problems that people are facing. So, people need to realize that, at some level, we all have some control over our positions.
First of all, Police Officers do have decent job security. That job security, along with medical insurance and other perks, is part of the compensation package. This means that it comes with the paycheck. Put another way, the employer, the city, is merely fulfilling its end of the bargain. This means that police officers have this luxury because it is something that they worked towards to—academy, graveyard shifts, staying clean, and other sacrifices. Consequently, Police Officers have paid the price to enjoy the spot that they are in, in comparison to being unemployed.
Additionally, the people who are arguing that everyone should take a pay cut should know, by this point in their lives, that no one is going to give them anything or genuinely assist them in getting out of their situations. With that being said, people should do away with the mentality that other people should suffer as well.
Furthermore, Police Officers are not the direct cause of people losing jobs. I qualify my statement with “direct cause” because someone is going to make some far-reaching argument—tenuous at best, in an attempt to link Police Officers to the problem. So, blaming Police Officers for the misfortunes of others (along with resentment towards Police Officers) is not fair.
In addition, as far as fairness, anyone that has held a job knows that life is not controlled by fairness. It might seem unfair that one person loses his or her job while another person retains his or her job. Along the same line of reasoning, it does not follow that, because one person takes a pay-cut, another person (in a completely different company) should take a pay-cut. This logic is seriously flawed.
Therefore, for all of the aforementioned reasons, Police Officers are not responsible for the misfortunes that people are facing. Police Officers have made sacrifices (shift changes, grave yard shifts, academy training, worked hard to stay employable, and other things) to get where they are. Most people will agree that people are facing misfortunes; and most people will not wish these troubles on other people. So, the people who are wishing misfortune on Police Officers should do something for themselves instead.
HATER said...
THE UNION SHOULD LAUNCH THE TEACHERS WHO VOTED.
R CONTRACT STATES THAT WE CANT MAKE SIDE DEALS.
BUT THE SGT LTS. CAPTAINS CAN.
JUST WATCH AS THEY SELL US OUT THEY R THE WEAK SPOT.
9/04/2011 07:21:00 AM
Interesting how in their contracts, I believe their allotted days off such as vacation days etc., are full days. They don't have to put time in to make up the difference such as po's. Smart.
9/04/2011 07:00:00 PM
Get off the Labor Day sauce the PBPA was the only ones to vote NO on the contract and we don't get full allotted days either with have too burn a half hour slip also. So go back to your bark yard barbeque have another wobble pop and go impress your neighbors with your war stories MORON
You are all a bunch of idiots. You cry about how the democrats and Obama are a bunch of socialists and communists. Don't you realize that labor unions are the ultimate form of communism. It rewards those who do NO work with the same benefits as those who work hard. That is what you guys support? Then why do you bitch about clout babies, dogs, and house mice all the time? Fuck all the unions! The CTU, FOP, SEIU and all of them are a bunch of communist fucks!
9/04/2011 04:54:00 PM
First of all CLOWN.....without the UNIONS....you would be working for 4.25/hr w/ or without your precious college degree....Da mayor would've given you 24 NON PAID FURLO days three or four years ago and would've told you TOUGHEN UP......than the BOSS would have you shipped to 005 on 1st watch because you began to moan about the unpaid furlo days and there wouldnt be a thing you could do about it. No clout would've kept you driving 90 mins one way to work for the next 20 years....so without sticking with the UNIONS the big shot "leaders" of our society (i.e. DALEY, MADIGAN, QUINN and dont forget the 50 theives) would DICTATE your salaries, vacation days, work locations.... and dont forget the UNPAID FURLO days while they sit back and COLLECT the $$$$$......so before you bitch about the Unions you should thank them for sticking together and fighting against the MACHINE to keep decent wages, health care, and families together, especially in tough time like these.
PRO-UNION
What is the big deal? When I went to school here, we got out at 3:15. No air conditioning, no police.
Number 1 news story night after night. The world does not revolve around these clinically obese parasites and their incessant demands.
Oh -- free CTA fare for baby and babymama and babydaddy on the first day of school? Not to mention the entire extended family. Sounds like a good place to stay away from. Baby go to school, daddy go flash mob Chicago/State.
"Anonymous said...
OT ... Big command changes this coming week.
9/04/2011 09:20:00 AM
Yea ok. Aren't you the same guy who has been posting for over a year that big command changes are coming? Yet I haven't seen anything worth getting excited about.
9/04/2011 05:33:00 PM"
Hey! Sooner or later he's gonna be right; just like a stopped clock is right twice a day. Then it'il be, "Told ya' so!"
9/04/2011 08:46:00 PM
You're also very predictable. Assuming it's a "he" who got this information. I'll be "telling ya so" by Friday.
Brizzard was brought in for the same reason as McCarthy- to be Emmanuel's hatchet man. I and many other teachers I know would gladly forgo the 4% raise during this recession in exchange for more job security, and if the board and superintendent weren't so busy lining their pockets with salary increases while poor mouthing the media in the name of the children.
As I understand it, they broke the contract on financial grounds, and the CTU is challenging the board legally, demanding transparency and justification on the budget. To strike would be to play into their hands, that's what they're trying to provoke. They're playing the public and media, selling their bottom line decisions in the name of reform.
025 3rd Watch-iWhy is management fucking with the minds of the young aggressive officers in 025 3rd watch? We have done everything they wanted from us. We give good activity and then Capt. K.B. will dump most of us to 1st watch.
Uh it's called senority. If your aggressive on 3rd watch do the same on midnights. I did it and so did thousands before AND after you. Suck it up and wait your turn.
I can't help but notice an influx of outsiders posting on the blog. My guess is that Rahm has employed people to spread his propaganda on this site.
So if that's the case, I guess it means this blog may not be that insignificant after all.
9/04/2011 07:06:00 PM
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Maybe you're not aware there's a best blog contest going on? And a lot of those people are hearing about and checking out this blog for the first time. And, no, they're not cops, so some of them might not share our views. No big conspiracy.
025 3rd Watch- Why is management fucking with the minds of the young aggressive officers in 025 3rd watch? We have done everything they wanted from us. We give good activity and then Capt. K.B. will dump most of us to 1st watch.
Because KB is frightened to make decisions without his old council, the former Captain Mustache. Please come back Capt stache and give old kenny the rundown on who the real police are so that you can be told of who the real polise are and conversely the dogs too. Mustache, help Kenny! There are lives and careers at stake.
You are obviously a victim of the Chicago Public School system. If the "teaches unions," as you called it, reduced the school day by 7.5 hours from your 8:00 to 3:30, they would only be going to school for, let's see, NO hours.
Learn to count, Rahmulan. Then learn the difference between "their" and "there" and get back to us. And by the way, not all "teaches" are liberal. My family has teachers and they are VERY conservative, so go take your nitwit pro-Ballerino bullshit and stick it where the sun doesn't shine.
And while you're at it, go fetch your fucking shine box. You'll need it for extra cash when Ballerino takes your pay and benefits. Now go fuck yourself you stupid, uneducated, half illiterate piece of ass kissing shit. You are the fucking problem.
9/04/2011 08:57:00 PM
sorry for the spelling error. however do the math 1.5 hrs per day x 5 =7.5 . that is what 9.5 wants to add to the school week. does Your family work for the Chicago puplic school system? what watch do you work on? wow, I Talk to many teachers and they tell me how fuck up it is with useless teaches . I have talked to principals that tell me they can't get rid of these teachers because of the union. I may be wrong on this but the C.T.U was against giving a state test to see if they were able to teach within there(that's a joke it should be their or is it i before e?)grade level.
Educators are pushing for the longer hrs. in the day . I do not back up 9.5 however, times are changing. When we are getting fucked on our contract lets see the C.T.U. back us up! Most educators in this country are liberal and vote Democrat. Hell even the Potus was a teacher. If all you got out of my post was a grammar issue and a misunderstanding about 7.5 hrs then I failed in the meaning of my post.
Now for the shine box comment. How can you look at your neighbors who have lost their jobs or have reduced salaries and tell them I deserve more? Let me tell you more people have been killed at work building this country then police officers have been killed defended it! Construction workers are hurting. I have heard more cops say I have a Mexican(illegal) that can do it cheap. I am grateful I have a job that pays well. Until the economy recovers we are all fucked! I will do anything I have to to feed my family so, would you like your shoes shined?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
025 3rd Watch- Why is management fucking with the minds of the young aggressive officers in 025 3rd watch? We have done everything they wanted from us. We give good activity and then Capt. K.B. will dump most of us to 1st watch.
9/04/2011 08:18:00 AM
All of you "young aggressive officers" should have figured that out a long time ago. Regardless of your activity Capt. K.B. the right to dump you to 1st watch if you don't have the seniority.
No offense but when did the corporate world become the best and most beneficial employment model for the public sector, e.g. police, fire, schools? I mean they didn't share the profits when they were rolling high. They didn't demand that we follow their model then, instead they looked down at us a the blue-collar workers. I just don't get this overwhelming desire to equalize the public sector to the losses the corporate sector has sustained. Is it just plain old jealousy?
9/04/2011 10:18:00 PM
I don't know about police or fire, but CPS is a complete mess and needs a new model. And this really isn't new. Daley has wanted to extend the school day for years, but the union has never allowed it. Charter schools have been around since the early 90s to offer kids a longer day, among other things.
I don't think it's about jealously, it's more about common sense. Why have 1 worker in the private sector earn 55k working 40+ hrs/week all year and a teacher w/about the same level of education/experience making the same working 31.25 hrs/wk (plus several more hrs at home) for 180 days? And it's not like you can justify it by looking at the students' performance. Most kids in CPS are not meeting very basic state standards, even after the bar has been lowered. From an economic standpoint, it just doesn't make sense to continue this same inefficient model of failure.
I have a really basic question. How can a school vote to change its hours? Can schools then vote to shorten the school day? Just doesn't smell right.
9/04/2011 10:48:00 PM
The contract allows any school to extend their day if 50% +1 of the teachers vote for it. I've heard of several schools extending their day by a small amount of time, maybe 15 minutes or so. Schools cannot shorten their day.
Get behind Shields! We voted him in so quit whining! Stay united! Right or wrong do not waiver! The cannon ball is going to be fired shortly across our bow! This guy Rahm is is an all-pro BS artist! He will try to convince the public he can do more with less! Do not talk about lying down on the job! Not serving the public! Anything on this blog is right now being read and copied for future use by City Hall! Quit with the in- fighting and juvenile postings! It makes the CPD and FOP look childish! We must act professional if we expect to be effective!
Anonymous said...
What is the big deal? When I went to school here, we got out at 3:15. No air conditioning, no police.
Number 1 news story night after night. The world does not revolve around these clinically obese parasites and their incessant demands.
9/05/2011 12:04:00 AM
When i was first hired, officers did not have fixed days off, no union rights, no bidding, time due was limited to 75 hours max. Any hours over were lost that year. So what is your point asshat? Every profession seeks to improve their workplace. Just wait until we are the focus of rahm and you will cry like a stuffed pig, you parasite.
"Anonymous said...
OT ... Big command changes this coming week.
9/04/2011 09:20:00 AM
Yea ok. Aren't you the same guy who has been posting for over a year that big command changes are coming? Yet I haven't seen anything worth getting excited about.
9/04/2011 05:33:00 PM"
Hey! Sooner or later he's gonna be right; just like a stopped clock is right twice a day. Then it'il be, "Told ya' so!"
9/04/2011 08:46:00 PM
You're also very predictable. Assuming it's a "he" who got this information. I'll be "telling ya so" by Friday.
9/05/2011 12:40:00 AM
Ok you win guy/gal. Who really gives a flying fuck. In over 20 years on I've haven't dealt with a commander or an exempt. I couldn't tell you who most exempts or commanders are or what they look like. I can leave this job anytime I choose so I couldn't care less who the new fucking commander is because it really wont affect me one bit.
A union contract is not only a contract between the City and the teachers union; it also binds the members of the union.
The Chicago Teachers Union should censure any members who 'choose' to waive their contractual rights and should move to eject them from the union. They should also remind those teachers that they have no further representation for legal matters and no rights to the perks and benefits given to union members.
And the FOP should do the same. You're either a union member, or you're not. You don't get to pick and choose at whim.
9/04/2011 02:48:00 AM
You should be careful of what you wish for.
Your idea would immediately apply to tact, units, etc.
Would those ejected members then stop paying dues? How would that effect the pension fund?
CORRECTION:
Anonymous said...
One of the schools is the Schiller School, 640 West Scott. Once within the heart and shadows of six Cabrini-Green high rise projects (now all demolished) it's no surprise that they grabbed that free money and ran with it.
They have a lot of experience in that area.
9/04/2011 08:06:00 AM
One of those three scab schools was the Skinner, not the Schiller.
My bad!
Look at what's been running CPS for the last decades . Have test scores gone down since the 1960's and 1970's .
Didn't need metal detectors , police and security guards assigned to public schools then.
What happened ?
Post comments about cause of poor performance in the public schools .
rahmbo got 30 out of 24,000 teachers to jump the fence--- hardly a landslide victory on his part--- sgt les, put this kid over your lap and swat his behind, maybe it will bring him back to reality.....
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There are actually some teachers that asked for the school day and year to be lengthened. Given how fast these teachers agreed, is it just possible they got what they asked for and just were not in a position to turn it down?
"it isn't my job to preserve the city payroll, so I'm gonna mess with your salary and benefits"
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If there really is no money to pay for it, something has to give. Employee salaries and benefits are a huge chunk of the city budget.
In the end, it may just be a negotiating ploy to help get payroll costs in line with what revenue is going to be available to fund those costs.
At some point the city will run out of things to sell to prop up the spending side of things and spending will have to go back in line with revenue.
Rahm is not an idiot and he has to know how dire the city's financial position is. I would not be surprised to see an actual budget cut. Not cuts in fictitious budget items that were never intended to be spent in the first place, or cuts in the rates of growth in spending, but actually honestly spending less on a net basis next year than this year.
Doing that and increasing spending to prop up the various employee pension plans is going to mean that a lot more has to get cut from the rest of the budget.
You guys think the police pension plan is in bad shape, what do you think the thieves in charge of the city have done to other employee pension plans?
@ 1226pm 9/4:
That whole education and the nuclear family as foreign concept is a partial truth at best and even that much is a recent development. More than half of us are from families that came here from the south in the middle of the last century. And of those, like my grandfather, they came here with nothing and lived with the nuclear family you're talking about until you got on your feet and got your own place. The ones that could go to school did. If they couldn't, they almost rammed it down their own kids throats to go to as much school as possible. Don't let the last few decades distort your whole context of reality.
Now for the shine box comment. How can you look at your neighbors who have lost their jobs or have reduced salaries and tell them I deserve more? Let me tell you more people have been killed at work building this country then police officers have been killed defended it! Construction workers are hurting. I have heard more cops say I have a Mexican(illegal) that can do it cheap. I am grateful I have a job that pays well. Until the economy recovers we are all fucked! I will do anything I have to to feed my family so, would you like your shoes shined?
9/05/2011 07:38:00 AM
You are a Rahmulan kiss ass and part of the problem. You will vote for him again. And while you're down there shining my shoes...
Just think if aldergoof BEALE gave up his job and they closed his not needed bullshit elected office with his salary and expense account and staff we could save $700,000+ enough to hire 14 new coppers to patrol his shithole ward full of aniamls! "Change we could believe in"!
Get behind Shields! We voted him in so quit whining! Stay united! Right or wrong do not waiver! The cannon ball is going to be fired shortly across our bow! This guy Rahm is is an all-pro BS artist! He will try to convince the public he can do more with less! Do not talk about lying down on the job! Not serving the public! Anything on this blog is right now being read and copied for future use by City Hall! Quit with the in- fighting and juvenile postings! It makes the CPD and FOP look childish! We must act professional if we expect to be effective!
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WRONG ! We 'ALL' did not vote him in...JACKASS
Who paid off hoffa? Maybe the cia gave him some crazy pills? Or did the justice department let him continue on his crime and rhyme tour?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/05/jimmy_hoffa_at_obama_event_on_gop_lets_take_these_son_of_bitches_out.html
Most people in the corporate world work 40-50+ hr weeks year-round for less money. They also don't get additional compensation for staying late for meetings, etc. They get paid the same salary whether they work 40 or 60 hrs per week. The teacher's union is out of touch with the reality of most working people.
9/04/2011 06:07:00 PM
The corporate/private sector employees are being completely hosed and are reverting to pre-union conditions - no sick days (oh sure you log a sick day but have to be available by phone/email on your blackberry OR ELSE), longer vesting for pensions (if there's a pension at all) and 50 hour + weeks with no job security because corporate restructuring can happen anytime. And sorry but everyone in the private sector is not more educated or "better" than anyone else. If anything these MBAs have forgotten or never learned why unions exist.
i actually saw a REV( sorry forgot his name and church), say on the news that it s not a school problem,or teacher problem, but the parents need to be involved in their kids lives and get them to school and help them with homework...amen...couldn't believe he actually said that out loud....
Just for the hell of it, the teachers should ALL vote to take the 2% and school bonus and see where Brizard and Emanuel get the 100 million dollars it would cost . It's 70 million for the bonus
( 150,000 X 450 schools) and 40 million ( 1200 X 30,000 teachers) for the 2%.
OK, I'm not serious, but it would be interesting !
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