Please Don't Strike
Rahm is about to preside over the second teachers strike in three years, a feat not accomplished in many decades. He's been reduced to begging Karen Lewis not to make him fold like a Titanic deck chair:
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday urged the Chicago Teachers Union to drop talk of a strike and join forces with the Chicago Public Schools in the drive to get the $480 million in pension help from Springfield needed to avert massive teacher layoffs.
Nine months ago, mayoral challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia warned that Chicago faced its second teachers strike in three years if a “hard-headed” and “confrontational” Rahm Emanuel was re-elected.
Garcia warned then that Emanuel’s bullying missteps instigated the seven-day teachers’ strike in 2012 that was Chicago’s first in 25 years and predicted that the same thing would happen again unless Emanuel changed his stripes.
For a guy without a plan, Chewbacca sure seems to know the lay of the land.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
61 Comments:
Rahm is now doing everything he threatened the voters Chuy would do, warning us away from voting for Chuy.
Well... almost everything. I'm still waiting for that audit and review of the secret, second set of books Chicago keeps. Chuy promised to do it. Why doesn't Rahm do it??
Who cares? Let them all go on strike. There's 60,000 certified teachers waiting in the pipeline to take on those jobs. CPS should fire every single one of them when they go on strike and walk out the door. Post the jobs - hire new ones, unless the old one returns before a replacement is interviewed.
Enough with the extortion: Give us whatever we want or we go on strike and you get to deal with your kid(s) for the duration, and maybe lose your job.
You want to negotiate? Fine. Figure out a way for some to get raises, but not all (because we can't afford that bullshit any longer)? Fine. Figure out a way for you to pay your own pension contribution? Because you're making way more than what we paid teachers when we first came up with this pension in exchange for making less than the private sector? We'll talk. You'll get something - but not everyone will, and you'll have to live with it or go work somewhere else.
You don't want to negotiate? Piss off.
Slam the lil asshat to the ground.
He had a plan. But he does not have the money to accomplish it.
"Laugh it up, fuzzball."
Since Rahm always negotiates in bad faith,
the CTU is more than justified in sticking a
strike in his narrow ass dry and sideways...
This whole thing of punishing teachers
for the unprepared, intellectually disinterested,
irredeemably hostile and violent tide that spills
out of CPS doors everyday at dismissal time...
>A handful of six-foot-tall, 200lb 3 year olds jay-walking
at an obtuse angle to maximize your inconvenience.
You bump the horn to move them along and they all lock
eyes on you and spit contemptuously<
Yeah... Just like that...
Aren't they wonderful?
They'll be the new CPD
Rahm wants so desperately to
replace what's left of the old CPD
with.
No matter where in this world you are...
Real men will most assuredly feel a certain
kind of way at that display...
At least in Singapore, they have the answer
To that challenge.
;^)
Third term Rahm is squeaking about now = third strike?
Mmm.
That, or it is a plot by the teachers union to smear and discredit the most effective mayor Chicago has had in over 50 years.
Tax increases, teacher's strike and children being gunned down-people are kicking themselves they didnt vote for Chuy.
Strike Strike Strike
Yo go girl.
It's amazng how ignorant people are. Union people voting for Rahm to cut their salaries and pensions and raise their taxes.
Did anyone see the department SPARed about 40 people for not having their traffic safety vest for the marathon? Wow that shit is pimpy. People working their day off too. I know it was in the instructions, but send their ass home. The department used them like a cheap hoe and fucked them again a month later.
I adore any man named Chewie. It brings back memories.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Clearly Rahm and his machine think we CPS teachers are stupid. Accept a contract where our paychecks will be 10% smaller 3 years from now? Accept that we should reimburse our pension fund for the money that was stolen from it? Especially since the 2 BILLION dollars deducted from our paychecks from 95-05 never even made it into the fund? Riiight.
But now he thinks we should help him beg Springfield to give his machine a loan? While the CEO he knew full well was a thief is heading to prison? And the city refuses to stop funding the charter profiteers? And refuses to stop funding every hare-brained educational improvement idea cooked up by the vendor racketeers? GTFO of here.
And the public - who've been brainwashed to believe the "bad schools" myth - they can GTFO of here as well. Most CPS teachers are great educators who teach the kids no one in the suburbs or private schools would touch: the angry kids, the dirty kids, the kids who don't know how to do anything, the kids whose parents don't give even the smallest shit.
I'm 100% sure we're going to strike, and it's going to be a long one. Thanks in advance Daley and Rahm, for having to stand outside in January for weeks without a paycheck. I voted for Chuy.
The city fucked the teachers, plain and simple. They made a deal
for making 80% of the teacher's individual contributions in lieu of a pay raise.
They also, like us, haven't made the city's contributions. I don't blame them for
being angry. Unlike us, they can strike to force their views.
Good for them
As much as I respect Karen Lewis, I wonder if the whole brain tumor thing was a hoax. Maybe Rahm offered her big bucks, say $5 million, to bow out of the race gracefully, so that Rahm could win reelection.
Chuy is a genious. Chicago has a robust history of shrewd leaders both famous and infamous. Chuy is the real deal though. His leadership skills will be compared to that of Chicago Legends.
We are all lucky for having bear witness to his Run off against the incumbent who is comparable to the great Meyer Lansky. It's a great time to be alive and served publicly by Jesus "Chuy" Garcia. I think Ben & Jerry's have a flavor of ice crème in honor of Mr. Garcia. The B&J Carton said Garcia on it so I'm guessing they're paying tribute to Chuy's leadership talents.
Awesome. Now not only are my taxes up, my property taxes up, airplanes whizzing over my house constantly lowering my property value, but now I get to try to find a private school for my kids. Great. May as well get that resume together, I can't afford to live here any more...
The school system is heading toward a bankruptcy and the teachers want to go on strike? I think the state should make strikes by public employees against the law. We are so much in debt that in the long run, there is no getting around it and no amount of tax increases will stop it. massive spending cuts in services and pay and benefits is the only thing that will save the city.People who think that a secret stash of TIF funds will save the day are delusional .
On another note, Karen Lewis dropped a ton of weight to the point that she looks truly in bad shape. I dislike her politically but I don't want to see her sick. I wonder how her cancer treatment is going.
Personally hate the strike tactic but Rahm is fucking them hard.
Have the safe passage workers cover the lesson plan until the strike ends.
12.38am,,,,,,see 8.59am and then rethink your position
I would rather have Karen Lewis for mayor.
Let them strike , we will see if ballerina has balls like Ronald Reagan.
Fire them , replace them with young kids out of college , retired teachers all at a substitute teacher salary . Greedy bas do nhot pay into their own pension fund, encouraged kids not to take standardized tests because they know most will be below average.
Anonymous said...
That, or it is a plot by the teachers union to smear and discredit the most effective mayor Chicago has had in over 50 years.
11/04/2015 02:02:00 AM
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Obviously written by an 18 year old.
Two things.
1 is if they do strike, I hope this time all municipal unions and the FOP have the sense to organize and urge their members to support, including by organizing support rallies. The silence last time was deafening, and played to Rahm. You don't have to like Lewis or any particular CTU rep personally (a bunch of em have abhorrent political views), but there is no avoiding the common interests.
2 is more about the CTU. Maybe this time tie it into the national election, and point to how Rahm is a product of the national democrats. If he's stabbing unions in the back, so are they. Obama and all. Tie this strongly into the national Democrats and their failure to support unions, and I'd put 90% odds that Rahm is forced to cave within a week.
No way. Lewis is a moron and not qualified for the job. I read it here several times in the comments. She may be a hard left liberal but she is leading the only city union to publicly give Rahm a headache...and more than once.
Clearly Rahm and his machine think we CPS teachers are stupid. Accept a contract where our paychecks will be 10% smaller 3 years from now? Accept that we should reimburse our pension fund for the money that was stolen from it? Especially since the 2 BILLION dollars deducted from our paychecks from 95-05 never even made it into the fund? Riiight.
But now he thinks we should help him beg Springfield to give his machine a loan? While the CEO he knew full well was a thief is heading to prison? And the city refuses to stop funding the charter profiteers? And refuses to stop funding every hare-brained educational improvement idea cooked up by the vendor racketeers? GTFO of here.
And the public - who've been brainwashed to believe the "bad schools" myth - they can GTFO of here as well. Most CPS teachers are great educators who teach the kids no one in the suburbs or private schools would touch: the angry kids, the dirty kids, the kids who don't know how to do anything, the kids whose parents don't give even the smallest shit.
I'm 100% sure we're going to strike, and it's going to be a long one. Thanks in advance Daley and Rahm, for having to stand outside in January for weeks without a paycheck. I voted for Chuy.
Rahm played the teachers perfectly, they are a lazy group who will NOT walk picket lines in the cold, snow and ice of a Chicago winter. They will bow to the mayor and take whatever crumbs that he sees fit to offer!
Should have laid off the CPD & CFD instead of passing this tax hike. Crime is down and its getting lower according to the Super....so why do we need more cops?
All the millions/billions short think about this came on job in 1987, retired this year in 1986 we did not have:
*Cell Phones
*Cable Tv
*Internet
*Internet phones
What is it I am getting at? TAXES! Check your bills where does all this billions in extra tax money go? Who is taking it? Pathetic thieves! Trump is rising in the polls, wait until he takes office bet in the first 100 days he audits Illinois,cook county,and Chicago books! How many will be marched off to prison? Bunch of lying thieves! How about what clown gave away over 60 million of our pension fund money to daley/vaneko for a real estate scam? they lost it all and are not charged? who at the pension board allowed this? Chicago "Billions and Billions stole!"
"massive spending cuts in services and pay and benefits is the only thing that will save the city."
Yep. Massive spending cuts to the thousands of other SUPES-type leadership/enrichment/professional development-providing organizations that exist to create the illusion of progress and to provide the means for kick-back schemes and pocket-lining.
But no. Let's cut teacher pay. CPS teachers suck, right? Those kids can hardly read. Must be teachers' fault.
"Who cares? Let them all go on strike. There's 60,000 certified teachers waiting in the pipeline to take on those jobs. CPS should fire every single one of them when they go on strike and walk out the door"
Clearly written by someone unfamiliar with the profession. By all measures there's a teacher shortage in every district of every state. Colleges of Education with no one enrolling in them. Nobody wants to go into teaching anymore - except maybe a few TFA-ers who need some resume padding before starting law school or an MBA program.
The school system is heading toward a bankruptcy and the teachers want to go on strike? I think the state should make strikes by public employees against the law.
Ok all u people that think they should fire all the teachers because they want to strike. THEY WERE threaten by the city that 5000 might be let go because of budget problems. Im sure u wouldn t like it if the city let go of 2000 coppers. But since we can t strike we would have no recourse. The city closed 50 schools the last time just to open a bunch of charter schools that most are doing no better then the schools they closed. That was the mayor taken care of some of his buddys who own or run the charters. They want to break the unions. And if you ve seen some of the video s posted on facebook where the teachers are threaten or even beaten up u would know that they don t make enough for the crap they have to put up. At least we have a gun.
11/04/2015 06:50:00 AM
If you're too stupid to bring your safety vest when the order explicitly states to do just that then tough shit! Fucking crybabies with entitlement syndrome.
Rahm will go into the fetal position if they strike.
Anonymous said...
Did anyone see the department SPARed about 40 people for not having their traffic safety vest for the marathon? Wow that shit is pimpy. People working their day off too. I know it was in the instructions, but send their ass home. The department used them like a cheap hoe and fucked them again a month later.
11/04/2015 06:50:00 AM
Who would take their post? Some people think they can do whatever they want and there will be no consequences.
Karen Lewis is one of the most effective labor leaders I have witnessed in my lifetime (and I am 70). She gets what she wants and has Rahm and his aldermen shitting on themselves. Why don't the FOP call for a vote of no confidence on Rahm? I know we cannot strike, but the bad publicity this would cause him would be devastating. We sit like little lambs while he gets set to slaughter us.
and the teachers union backed who at election time???? Im sorry....WHO????
You don't want to negotiate? Piss off.
11/04/2015 12:38:00 AM
Wow, Emanuel's folks stayed up late tonight to get this post up on the blog!!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
As much as I respect Karen Lewis, I wonder if the whole brain tumor thing was a hoax. Maybe Rahm offered her big bucks, say $5 million, to bow out of the race gracefully, so that Rahm could win reelection.
11/04/2015 09:00:00 AM
Paid off all those hospital doctors and radiologists, too?
Said it before - will say it again - Chuy should have kept bringing up Amir Ahmed (Rahm'a clown from Ohio)'and reminded the voters that Rahm was smoke & mirrors.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Did anyone see the department SPARed about 40 people for not having their traffic safety vest for the marathon? Wow that shit is pimpy. People working their day off too. I know it was in the instructions, but send their ass home. The department used them like a cheap hoe and fucked them again a month later.
Our J.O. Lieutenant in 022 (M.R.) gigged guys at uniform inspection for B.S. infractions while he was inspecting us in his blouse. Total crap. I hate 022.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
That, or it is a plot by the teachers union to smear and discredit the most effective mayor Chicago has had in over 50 years.
11/04/2015 02:02:00 AM
Holy shit have you drank the Kool-Aid. That stuff aint good for you!
Just remember one thing: Last year when Furgusson Missouri was rioting and protesting the Michael Brown shooting, the Chicago Teachers Union sent $700.00 to buy pizzas for the rioters/protesters. Karen Lewis and her 1st Vice-president Jesse Sharkey are far left liberals who would stick it in our rear in a second.
How many of Rahm's moves and choices turned out entirely screwed up and exposed AFTER the election?
The local press was completely scrubbing his little rahmballs.
The tax hike, the dirty CPS schools chief, the CPS dropout rates being fudged, the continued borrowing/refinancing on city debt, the lies about police "boots on the ground."
the city is imploding and the press keeps providing cover. Fuck this shit hole. It only works for the moochers who get everything for free.
the Virginian said...
Two things.
1 is if they do strike, I hope this time all municipal unions and the FOP have the sense to organize and urge their members to support, including by organizing support rallies. The silence last time was deafening, and played to Rahm. You don't have to like Lewis or any particular CTU rep personally (a bunch of em have abhorrent political views), but there is no avoiding the common interests.
11/04/2015 01:02:00 PM
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Hey moron the CTU and SIEU funded buses to protest in Ferguson.
The teachers pay 2% for their pension and we pay 9%.
They are part-time employees (summer off, no weekends, no 1st or 3rd watches, all holidays off, Two weeks off at Christmas, Easter week off)!!!
They now want an extra CTU position (social justice) at all schools with police officers to be a watchdog and watch every move by P.O.
Time for FOP to demand all those P.O.’s be returned to patrol (sorry clout babies). If the teachers can’t control their classrooms let the CTU hire P.O.’s on their OFF hours time and a half to protect the wimpy teachers like a VRI program!!
And lastly caper milk toast stay off this blog!!
Signed
The Revolver Police
Eliminate all Safe Passage workers and then get CPS out of the food business. Eat breakfast at home and bring a bag lunch. no more school lunches. just think of all the fruit and milk that will no longer end up in dumpsters plus hundreds of millions. saved.
Anonymous said...
Karen Lewis is one of the most effective labor leaders I have witnessed in my lifetime (and I am 70). She gets what she wants and has Rahm and his aldermen shitting on themselves. Why don't the FOP call for a vote of no confidence on Rahm? I know we cannot strike, but the bad publicity this would cause him would be devastating. We sit like little lambs while he gets set to slaughter us.
11/04/2015 06:16:00 PM
Wasn't she part of the union, not the head of, that allowed the city to take pension holidays to get bigger raises for the teachers.
If teachers got merit pay a third would be making less than the poverty level!!!
Stay off this blog with your commie shit!
Teachers should be forced to go to arbitration just like us. What makes the lefty wimps better than us?
Two things which are going to happen and you can bank on it are: One, there's going to be a teacher strike and it's going to happen right after everyone comes back from Winter Break (used to be called Christmas Break). Two, 5000 teachers will be cut.
Those 5000 teachers are the same ones who received poor ratings on their REACH evaluations and many of them are tenured teachers drawing higher than average salaries, meaning more than the CPS teacher average of $75K. The process of getting rid of those 5000 teachers is lengthy. S, by cutting them, CPS saves tons of money. These teachers can be cut regardless of tenure because they're being let go due to budgetary concerns.
Here's a good article to read to explain cuts and the REAXH evaluations:
http://catalyst-chicago.org/2015/11/tenured-educators-get-high-marks-on-evaluations/
Karen Lewis never forgot that the ballerina mfd her . She bitch slapped him last time , this time Karen will deliver the knock out punch .
We were warned chuy would raise taxes , guess what taxes are up , kids still gunned down and ballerina did not hire 1,000 police officers .
First, make strikes by public employees against state law. Second, teachers should pay into their pension funds the full amount as required by law. Third, let them go to arbitration. CPS teachers are just about the highest paid teachers in the nation. The product they turn out, kids who have basic skills, is among the worst in the nation. It should also be against the law for public unions to contribute to elected officials. It is a conflict of interest. Our kids deserve better then what CPS does for them. Vouchers should be readily available for all parents, to include catholic school parents to send their kids to a school of their choice. CPS is broke through raft, corruption and mismanagement. There is little to no evidence that more and more money spent per pupil makes a difference and no evidence that advanced degrees make for a more effective teacher. They are paid plenty with plenty of time off. time for change in the school systems
--Signed
The Revolver Police--
And this is exactly why Rahm is shitting on the FOP. Not a brain in your head.
"Who cares? Let them all go on strike. There's 60,000 certified teachers waiting in the pipeline to take on those jobs. CPS should fire every single one of them when they go on strike and walk out the door"
Clearly written by someone unfamiliar with the profession. By all measures there's a teacher shortage in every district of every state. Colleges of Education with no one enrolling in them. Nobody wants to go into teaching anymore - except maybe a few TFA-ers who need some resume padding before starting law school or an MBA program.
11/04/2015 04:38:00 PM
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) is bound by legislation to compile data points, and promulgate several reports related to the teaching profession. The reports used to be every year, now every 3 years (law changed recently). The one you might be interested in reading, is the "Educator Supply and Demand" report ("Report") - available here:
http://www.isbe.net/research/pdfs/ed-supply-demand-2014.pdf
It'll prove that you're incorrect about there being a teacher shortage. From the Report:
The supply of new teachers is fairly robust. From 2004 to 2008, the total number of new instructional certificates issued increased by an average of 6%
a year. After decreasing 5% in 2008, however, the upward trend continued with increases of 6% in 2009 and 3% in 2010. Despite a dip in 2011, the average increase in new teaching certificates over the five-year 2008-12 period is
1%...The number of individuals receiving them has also increased by an average
of 2.7% (from 17,507 in 2008 to 19,471 in 2012).
Now ask yourself what happened in 2008? Could it have been the Great Recession that led to students being forced to drop out of school because they couldn't afford tuition? And so that's responsible for the dip in educators? Who knows? Who cares? What I do know is there's plenty of teachers available to take those jobs should Lewis & Co. decide to extort parents into forcing politicians to pay her and the minions what they want so the kids aren't at home.
Enough is enough. And lest you think that the teachers don't make enough, here's the ISBE's report on Salaries and Fringe Benefits:
http://www.isbe.net/research/pdfs/teacher_salary_14-15.pdf
arbitration for the teachers union!!
"Wasn't she part of the union, not the head of, that allowed the city to take pension holidays to get bigger raises for the teachers."
No, dumbass. The Board of Ed, not the CTU, requested the pension holidays - periods of time during which the BoE did not need to put any of the pension $$ deducted from teachers' paychecks into the fund.
And also - stupido - it was Jane Byrne who accepted the deal to pick up an additional 7% of teacher pensions in 1981. That was an attempt to make paychecks similar to the higher ones in the suburbs.
Educate yourself - that can be done by a process known as reading.
Blogger JP said...
--Signed
The Revolver Police--
And this is exactly why Rahm is shitting on the FOP. Not a brain in your head.
11/05/2015 09:35:00 AM
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Isn't 9.5 raising taxes higher than they have ever been before to fund our pension? My brain likes that math to commie goof.
&&&&&& No, dumbass. The Board of Ed, not the CTU, requested the pension holidays - periods of time during which the BoE did not need to put any of the pension $$ deducted from teachers' paychecks into the fund.&&&&&&&&
The union allowed it to happen with a wink and a nod. They told the teachers we are against but did nothing to stop it. Why?
That was the way to fund bigger raises and for the union hierarchy to be re-elected. This is/was common knowledge in Springfield and within the union community.
All the rank and file teachers cared about was the raises. The CTU is just as culpable with the pension mess as is the city.
Of all the unions the CTU has screwed their own worse than all the other ones put together.
And go back to your commie teacher blog. Guess what? The FOP will be asking for all the PO's to be taken out of the schools shortly. The B of E will have to pay time and half to get you out from under your desk. I have a bullet proof vest for sale if you need one!
Rahm, is that you at 11:52, or one of the few idiots left that licks your butt?
Nobody could be so dumb, though senility might explain it partially.
I like Mr. Rahm.
If I remember correctly, rahmballs are very tiny and easy to handle.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
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