Just What Rahm Didn't Need
- Nearly every one of the thousands of Chicago teachers who cast ballots last week to determine whether they could go on strike voted to do so, blowing past a 75 percent approval mandated by the state.
The Chicago Teachers Union announced Monday that 96.5 percent of those casting ballots last week voted to back the strike. With nearly 92 percent of members voting, that means about 88 percent of all members support a strike should ongoing contract negotiations fail, according to CTU vice president Jesse Sharkey, who described the results as “overwhelming.”
That’s a shade lower than in 2012 when 89.7 percent of all CTU members voted to strike before walking out for seven school days.
Rahm supported that 75% approval number years back and Karen Lewis has humiliated him twice with it. Must be nice to be such a unifying figure of focused hatred. We'll see if Karen re-directs it at Springfield one of these days where all the big decisions will be made.
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posted by SCC at 12:11 AM
86 Comments:
Can't strike until spring, need to go to arbitration first....
Karen would be fine if she just focused her energy on getting the teachers a good deal. NOT posing with gang banger protestors and supporting every cause that has nothing to do w/ teachers. She got them a bad deal last time with longer day for less pay and seniority being non existing now. True she made Rahm look dumb last time - but their last contract was garage. Hope she does better this time.
another embarrassing moment for rahlm. Oh wait there was a shootout with 84 shell casings just about a mile and a half from his house also. Crime is down I guess.
CTU vs FOP: if fop did have a strike clause, what percent of patrolmen and detectives would actually cast a ballot? 25, 30%? Now what if a free t-shirt was given in receipt of ballot? 75, 80%? Now what if it was a Sons of Anarchy or UFC shirt? Closer to 90%?
not that I like Rahm Because I dont But I dont like Karen Lewis either She sent 2 buses of teachers to Ferguson Missouri to rally for Mike Brown
Say what you will about the teachers union, but 92% of their union actually took the time to vote. The FOP could setup a voting station in the roll call room and we'd still end up with 50% of eligible voters casting a ballot.
Just the sheer bitter amusement of seeing Karen Lewis
giving that prancing, candy dancing, maniacal, oily little
weasel-pimp a black-eye in his hockey dot...
It would be a beautiful thing if Rahm were to be forcibly
un-assed from some of his ill-gotten personal fortune too.
Hey Rahm.
The way you play is the way you pay.
Her name is Karma...
That crown wearing, purple bag swinging,
many tit having, imperial bitch with a mouth full of
teeth like broken mirror glass...
Tearing the meat from your narrow ass.
"GRRRR!"
>CHOMP!<
"AAIIEEEE!"
If the CTU teachers go on strike, they should all be looking for jobs the next day. Rahm and the city have been more than fair with them.
OMG, Where will all those poor kids get their meals if the teachers go on strike? How will they get their free breakfast, lunch and dinner if the school is closed.
I'm not happy with CTU for hooking up with the anti police protesters on Black Friday.
That being said I love seeing Rahm being bitch slapped and kneed in the nuts so I'm rooting for CTU to further damage and humiliate a wounded political animal.
too bad the FOP doesn't have a leader like Karen. But I guess being in Rahm's pocket is way less stressful. Right Dean?
"not that I like Rahm Because I dont But I dont like Karen Lewis either She sent 2 buses of teachers to Ferguson Missouri to rally for Mike Brown"
As a CPS teacher/CTU member, please accept my apologies for this! Also know that the CTU received LOTS of angry emails from CTU members after the robocall soliciting teachers to participate in the Black Friday protests - they're trying to jump on the anti-Rahm bandwagon in every way possible, but their anti-police rhetoric infuriated the normal CTU people and caused a bunch of backlash within the union.
Maybe, the CTU's Karen Lewis and her members should just be happy they got the 7% pension pickup for this long as that seems to be the major sticking point for this strike. Don't buy into the CTU's bullshit that it's about class sizes and paperwork for this strike, it's all about money. Based on average CPS teacher salary of $75,000, the extra 7% pickup amounts to the poor teachers paying another $5250/yr for their OWN pension. Right now, CPS teachers are throwing in $1500/yr towards their OWN pensions.
Since 1980, while all other city employees have been paying the full 9% of their OWN pension pickup, CTU members have only been paying 2% of the 9%. And, the city employees paying the full 9% haven't been given as many pay increases as CTU members have since 1980.
Secondly, if Lewis wants her teachers to make more money, I would suggest a cut in support staff salaries, especially as you have:
- Clerk 1's making $50,000 after 5 years of experience (with the major requirements for this position being a high school diploma or GED equivalency and one year of prior clerical experience),
- School business managers making $75,000-$95,000, and
- Former teachers working in positions under the title of 'Resource/Consultative Teacher' and making $75,000-$100,000 working in non-certified positions around schools while continuing to receive teacher pay and benefits. These positions could be staffed by non-certified staffers for half the pay and allow for teachers to have an increase in pay.
Third, many CTU members are getting an extra $2500-$3000 a year in pay to have an advance degree even if they don't use their degree in their current area. An example of this is PE teachers with a Masters in Administration. If this perk was eliminated or only paid to hose actually using their Masters, more money could be budgeted for teacher salaries.
Also, why are many CTU members the only city employees who can live outside Chicago? Currently, if a CTU member was hired before November 20, 1996, they can live anywhere they want as they're grandfathered-in with the old CPS Residency Policy. And, many CTU members get residency waivers while working in positions in areas deemed a 'special need basis', meaning they can live outside Chicago if they were hired as non-Chicago residents and their area was and continues to be considered a need for CPS. Some areas are: PE, SPED, Math, Science, Librarian, Nurse, and a few Foreign Languages.
My question is why is there a need anymore for CTU members to continue to live outside Chicago on residency waivers when the CTU has been on record saying 7000 positions have been lost by their members in recent years?
Could never understand why anyone would want to be a teacher. You know when getting hired how the pay rate is, so why complain? If you weren't happy with your choice of employment, perhaps you should have tried another field.
Be set for a March Strike.
Teach the little bastards to read first, then strike.
sounds like the CTU cannot strike until May at the earliest. maybe they blow off negotiations and strike in September, the next school year.
Joe Friday said...
too bad the FOP doesn't have a leader like Karen. But I guess being in Rahm's pocket is way less stressful. Right Dean?
12/15/2015 05:28:00 AM
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What the F*ck are you talking about? Lewis is the most despised labor leader in the state.
She funded buses to go to Ferguson to protest the police.
She paid for Jessie Jackson's robo call to the masses to protest on Black Friday.
She encouraged teachers to join those protests.
I'm sorry that you were not successful in your election bid. But who the f@ck would vote for a little bitch like you.
They wear red as a sign of their socialist/communist leanings. Read where their second in command Jesse Sharkey likes to hang out and what his political practices are. This is who we support to teach our children? Is this really what you want to expose your children to? Do they teach them the values you do at home? Read and learn who the players are and what their agenda is before you support them.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/10/27/isoa-o27.html
https://victortoils.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/should-the-iso-expel-jesse-sharkey/
Say what you will about the teachers union, but 92% of their union actually took the time to vote. The FOP could setup a voting station in the roll call room and we'd still end up with 50% of eligible voters casting a ballot.
Way to high more like 33% would vote.
Karen Lewis marched on Michigan Ave. to protest the killing of Laquan McDonald. Why do you think they wear red shirts? She is head of the communist party.
Take a look at what teachers pay towards their pension, amazingly low, time to make them pay their fair share. Who other then Chicago pays someone a great wage to turn out a bunch of kids that are functionally illiterate.
Karen Lewis would be Mayor of Chicago if she didn't get sick . I bet the ballerina dancer regrets it everyday that he mf'd the female president of the teachers union . She has been bitch slapping the dancer around every round . If they strike that will be a knock out slap .
Really what type of person uses language like that toward a female , it shows his true colors , no respect for a female black lady .
Those are crocodile tears that the public no longer believe are real .
Screw the CTU. Go strike you greedy assholes! You work straight days, weekends and holidays off, summer off, you pay 2% into your pension and have absolutely ZERO accountability! Go strike and I hope Rahm fires each and every one of your asses!! You want to line up and support those who protest the police? Then don't expect support from us...greedy pricks!! I guess everyone else should feel the pinch except you? Whatever...no one cares about your dumb ass strike except ratchet momma who looks at CPS as a glorified (free) baby sitter! $80k/ year to babysit and you're angry???? Laughable
If they spent less time and energy protesting against police perhaps their negotiations would be farther along.
At the delegate meeting the first Wednesday of December, CTU leadership got a LOT of very vocal pushback about the Black Friday protests. Many were not at all happy to be attached to it. In fact, it got to where Sharkey got snippy and abruptly changed the subject. Please believe that many teachers support CPD and are grateful for your work.
What happened to Karen Lewis? She used to be good people..
The Teacher's Union robo-called people telling them to join the anti-police protests. They are Socialists at heart. My kids go to one of the few decent public schools left, but they are so left leaning in their teachings it is ridiculous. They have so many crazy agendas they push before reading, writing and arithmetic.
I still have some individuals teachers backs, but as a whole, I see them as the enemy these days. They have it ridiculously good and they want more. Their uppers ranks are bloated with high paying do nothings. They don't fund their pensions like we do. We spend more tax dollars per kid than any other City and look at the results. Apparently all the other agendas take president over their studies. I don't want our pension woes mixed up with theirs.
Last week the Teacher's Union encouraged the kids to walk out of class to join the protests. So with all of this you tell me....do you back a teacher's strike?
oe Friday said...
too bad the FOP doesn't have a leader like Karen. But I guess being in Rahm's pocket is way less stressful. Right Dean?
12/15/2015 05:28:00 AM
Fuck the CTU. They're on their own with this one. The day those jagoffs marched with McDonald shooting, I wrote them off and so should everyone else.
Let's not forget them protesting with the anti-police shitheads. Plus they should be paying more into their pension. I'm tired of the strikes. On the other hand, even if we could strike we wouldn't....no one on this job has the balls to not get paid for weeks or possibly a month. Remember our last contract? How many of you on here sold your souls because you thought we wouldn't get a retro check?
Take the total operational expenses for the CPS, divide by number of students, and it comes out to something like $12,000 per year. The solution for the school mess in Chicago is staring us in the face: fund kids, not bureaucracies. Give parents a voucher for $10,000 to use at any accredited school of their choice. Taxpayers save $2,000 a head, parents get control, and kids get schools working hard to develop better programs than competitors.
I wouldn't jump on the Karen Lewis bandwagon. She is an overt Racist.
I'm tired of the Teacher's Union holding our children and taxpayers hostage while the average teacher makes upwards of 100,000+ for 9 months of work and they contribute ZERO to their pension. Then they go out and protest with thugs. They should have binding arbitration like the rest of us. If they strike, hire replacements and send them to the unemployment office. Babysitters are always needed.
Yep, screw Rahm, but screw Karen too. I was one of many lucky recipients of her anti-police Jesse Jerkson calls on Thanksgiving and she's lost ALL supportfrom me.
I hope you all remember how much the teachers are supportive of the police. Screw the CTU !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Feds need to audit and take over the CPS. Then pursue numerous prosecutions with their findings!
I feel like a teachers strike will be a tipping point. Corruption, poor finances, record tax increases, low CPD manpower, gangs running amok, underfunded pensions.... scare off some families and the others will start fleeing and what is left?
If the CTU teachers go on strike, they should all be looking for jobs the next day. Rahm and the city have been more than fair with them.
12/15/2015 02:06:
She got them a bad deal last time with longer day for less pay and seniority being non existing now. True she made Rahm look dumb last time - but their last contract was garage. Hope she does better this time.
12/15/2015 12:23:00 AM
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CPS has not been fair, they spend money on stupid shit, stupid connected training, stupid fucking connected licensed "approved" vendors that give us $200 worth of shit for the low price of 6-700$. They spend money on charter schools that skirt around laws and rights because the neighborhood public school exists to take their "shitty" students that charters don't want, while cps gets blasted for lower performance. Cps does not invest into the schools we have and class sizes are too big, school essential resources are not provided. CPS buildings full of co2 with shitty facilities. Fair?... fuck you! Look for new jobs? ... Fuck you! Teachers make this system work despite itself everyday. Just as most cops allow cpd to function despite baffoons and their infinite wisdom!
Where are the protesters? Was the mayor successful in paying off the revs to get them to stop. This needs to be found out.
Anonymous said...
OMG, Where will all those poor kids get their meals if the teachers go on strike? How will they get their free breakfast, lunch and dinner if the school is closed.
12/15/2015 02:31:00 AM
Actually the schools stay open during the strike and still provide free food and babysitting just like last time they had a strike. So yes, you the taxpayer will still be providing free meals and daycare so momma can go out and party and get her nails and hair done without lugging little boo boo around!!!
City has misspent pension funds for decades; Rahm and his Board do not negotiate in good faith, too much graft and patronage to be mouthing platitudes about "the children" while cutting jobs and closing schools (to build new charters.) As a teacher, cops have had our backs, and Karen Lewis should've protested on her own if that's what she wanted to do, and not as head of CTU, but I support her against Rahm. (You all do a difficult and dangerous job, and I'm sorry for the pile-on - stay safe.)
Sorry, your union and its dimwitted leader lost my support when she backed the protesters here and in Ferguson. Strike one, strike two. Second strike in three years, ring them up.
If it causes 9 digit midget to resign, I'm all for it.
I applaud Karen Lewis for her consistent ire of Rahm Emanuel.
I dislike her support for the Thug element of the BLM and its spin offs that support the Anti Police rhetoric.
Just how many Teachers support us and our efforts, maybe 10-20%?
Chew on that when the CPS calls on you to maintain the classroom/lunchroom disorder.
The CPS strike is usually stacked with old lady ACORN fillers anyway, so all it amounts to is thug tactics to get something by hootin' & holla'n.
What's the CPS beef, oversized classrooms, an hour of added class time, paying up into a fair share of a pension reform, or what?
CPS ought to start creating job postings now. The minute they go on strike, fire them all, cancel their insurance - delete their accumulated sick days, and kick them out.
Post the jobs and hire new. These strikes are nothing but extortion upon the taxpayers. The City and State are broke - you can't get blood from a turnip.
"CTU vs FOP: if fop did have a strike clause, what percent of patrolmen and detectives would actually cast a ballot?"
Patrolpeeps prefer VRI whoring while Defectives luv FOP whoring.
Bottoms up!
Historically, FOP stood with the CTU. However, the CTU rarely supports us. They (CTU) frequently take an anti-police stance. We should remember this when they want to strike or make greater demands of the City.
All of those cops that are married to teachers should ask them to lobby their union and demand a pro-police stance.
Teachers need to eat crow, like we do,1-2% over the next 5 yrs. Pay 9% into the pension and enforce residency requirements. If not, tough shit. Your union wants to side with the same thugs we fight everyday to keep the city safe. Lets not forget the bus full of CTU protestors that went down to protest against the Officer that shot the "gentle giant" in Ferguson. That administration is not our friend. Screw the teachers union !!! FOP should come out publicly and denounce that union's intentions. Im happy to pay tuition !
Say what you will about the teachers union, but 92% of their union actually took the time to vote. The FOP could setup a voting station in the roll call room and we'd still end up with 50% of eligible voters casting a ballot.
You're probably right. But, how often do you see these elected FOP Officials? I can't even remember the last time any of these officials went to a roll call. We only see these guys when the election is coming up. How many teachers work midnight or 3rd watch? How many of you had an experienced that when you called FOP and didn't get an answer you were expecting or will get " I'll get back with you " and never got a call back?
07:35:00 Agreed. She is a horrible, hated person. But she gets out there for her Union. I don't see the FOP fighting for the cops. Yeah, she sucks. But wouldn't you prefer a leader that fights for you?
Also, why are many CTU members the only city employees who can live outside Chicago? Currently, if a CTU member was hired before November 20, 1996, they can live anywhere they want as they're grandfathered-in with the old CPS Residency Policy. And, many CTU members get residency waivers while working in positions in areas deemed a 'special need basis', meaning they can live outside Chicago if they were hired as non-Chicago residents and their area was and continues to be considered a need for CPS. Some areas are: PE, SPED, Math, Science, Librarian, Nurse, and a few Foreign Languages.
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Going to address this cut out part:
So TICKET THEM FOR A CITY STICKER VIOLATION...
FFS...you're a cop....
City POLICY is that ALL City Employees have a City Sticker on every vehicle they own. REGARDLESS of its current registration.
As the favorite (and sometimes Not so favorite) Guy on a Bike.....there is only one reason I don't have a City Sticker on my car...
I don't Own one. I had to sit through a frigging meeting with my departments Deputy Comptroller a few years ago and explain it to him.
Joe Friday said...
too bad the FOP doesn't have a leader like Karen. But I guess being in Rahm's pocket is way less stressful. Right Dean?
12/15/2015 05:28:00 AM
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What the F*ck are you talking about? Lewis is the most despised labor leader in the state.
She funded buses to go to Ferguson to protest the police.
She paid for Jessie Jackson's robo call to the masses to protest on Black Friday.
She encouraged teachers to join those protests.
I'm sorry that you were not successful in your election bid. But who the f@ck would vote for a little bitch like you.
Appears Joe is not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to being informed about Karen Lewis
I have family and friends that are teachers, with that being said I have no sympathy for them. Most of June, all of July and most of August off. Weekends off, a slew of three day weekends for various holidays, week off for thanksgiving, Christmas and spring break. Teachers want this and that, fine then they should work all year round. They can have 24 vacation days, 4 baby furlough days and 4 personal days. They can go pound sand for all I care. They work about as much as firemen do.
i hope rham fires them and bring teachers in that deserve a job.
What was the Strike question?
Hey Hey Ho Ho Rhamster Has Gots to Go!
They are out of control. Sorry...overpaid what what is produced and ripe with corruption from the top down. Administrative costs, meal situation, and up north here with addition student fees and bringing yearly supplies??? Time to slay the dragon. Scrap it along with that fat racist bitch who runs their Union. Fuck them...they can cry and scream that they aren't responsible for her actions and yet they hide behind her hoping to drink more from the drying well. Over paid corruption...time to end it all. Let them strike or whatever they are going to do. Don't let them pull at your heart strings and use the "Children" as scapegoats. For the amount of time you actually teach...you are not worth HALF of what we are paying you. PERIOD. Try that in the private sector and see how far you get.
Quit cheerleading for the Marxist C.T.U.!
They are not our friends. In fact, as a whole they're probably equal or greater police-haters than tiny dancer.
The enemy of our enemy is not are friend.
When the rahmster heading to Cuba?
And everybody just accepts those voting numbers like gospel? In Chicago? C'mon.
The CTU Executive Board received a lot of criticism for aligning themselves with anti-police protesters. A majority of rank and file teachers are angry and embarrassed that their union dues have gone towards funding anti-police non-sense.
This CTU member thanks the CPD for the work they do.
Do I feel sorry for Rahmulis,no. This bast**d threw every police officer under the
bus to satisfy the devil. Ramulis you picked the wrong side. Something you and every other politician are about to be schooled in is that you have to at least represent what is good and God-like. Backing the devil so you get re-elected, just like every other politician in the country will be your demise. You and all your kind are treasonous infidels. How's that for politically correct, you jag.
Hey stop bashing Karen. Was informed tonight that Wendall Philips High School that just won a state championship in football has a student to teacher ratio of 10 students for every 1 teacher and their combined average ACT score was 15.
I'm a teacher and have been for 13 years. There is a lot of anger geared towards us, but only a small amount is the protest and Black Friday stuff. The rest is about pensions, fair share, lazy, teach kids then strike... Yada yada yada. At the end of the day, the CTU and teachers are at a breaking point and are in a fight to keep their livelyhood that I have worked hard for and am great at. I personally don't give a shit what any of you negative people say. You don't pay my salary or my mortgage anymore than I pay yours.
Police pay more into the pension and get to collect and retire at 50 or 55 with 20 years on. We can retire with 20 years but can't collect until 63. Give me the same deal, I'll pay more. If not, screw you. We work days and have time off. Most of that time is dedicated to our work. We get minimal overtime if at all. You get overtime for all your time. Yes we know the pay scale when we became teachers, and we were also garunteed da pension. You knew nights and weekends we not yours anymore either, but yet we hear all about you sacrificing time. Same argument made by an above post.
The truth is nobody normal wants to be a cop or teacher, or anything else because of the head ache and low pay and being treated like shit by humans you serve. This justifies our pension. The only incentive on these jobs other than the fact you can save a life, or make a difference in your community everyday doing something you enjoy. Again, I applaud the CPD, but to you extremely negative people on here, I don't care if we have your support or not. I will fight for the benefit of a quality public educational system in the hopes that one day, they are funded well enough so cops and firefighters don't have to pay tuition. You are welcome. See you on the line boys and girls!
Sorry, your union and its dimwitted leader lost my support when she backed the protesters here and in Ferguson. Strike one, strike two. Second strike in three years, ring them up.
12/15/2015 11:22:00 AM
Sorry, I appreciate your personal opinion, but at the end of the day teachers don't need your support in our decision to strike if needed. It is our job to teach and do our job the best we can with what we have. You swore an oath to serve this city. Support teachers or not, you will still have to do your job as an unbiased professional. This is not personal, this is strictly business.
Sorry, your union and its dimwitted leader lost my support when she backed the protesters here and in Ferguson. Strike one, strike two. Second strike in three years, ring them up.
12/15/2015 11:22:00 AM
Sorry, I appreciate your personal opinion, but at the end of the day teachers don't need your support in our decision to strike if needed. It is our job to teach and do our job the best we can with what we have. You swore an oath to serve this city. Support teachers or not, you will still have to do your job as an unbiased professional. This is not personal, this is strictly business.
Is it also your job to pay for protestors to go to Ferguson , or to come here and fuck up traffic on Michigan Av?
I'm a teacher and have been for 13 years. There is a lot of anger geared towards us, but only a small amount is the protest and Black Friday stuff. The rest is about pensions, fair share, lazy, teach kids then strike... Yada yada yada. At the end of the day, the CTU and teachers are at a breaking point and are in a fight to keep their livelyhood that I have worked hard for and am great at. I personally don't give a shit what any of you negative people say. You don't pay my salary or my mortgage anymore than I pay yours.
Police pay more into the pension and get to collect and retire at 50 or 55 with 20 years on. We can retire with 20 years but can't collect until 63. Give me the same deal, I'll pay more. If not, screw you. We work days and have time off. Most of that time is dedicated to our work. We get minimal overtime if at all. You get overtime for all your time. Yes we know the pay scale when we became teachers, and we were also garunteed da pension. You knew nights and weekends we not yours anymore either, but yet we hear all about you sacrificing time. Same argument made by an above post.
The truth is nobody normal wants to be a cop or teacher, or anything else because of the head ache and low pay and being treated like shit by humans you serve. This justifies our pension. The only incentive on these jobs other than the fact you can save a life, or make a difference in your community everyday doing something you enjoy. Again, I applaud the CPD, but to you extremely negative people on here, I don't care if we have your support or not. I will fight for the benefit of a quality public educational system in the hopes that one day, they are funded well enough so cops and firefighters don't have to pay tuition. You are welcome. See you on the line boys and girls!
If you are a teacher, you are exactly what is wrong with the Chicago Public School System. You can't even spell correctly. Also, if you think the anger towards your profession is mostly because of your pensions fair share, lazy teachers, etc..., then you're very wrong. Seeing your union paying for protestors to go to Ferguson or Michigan Av to protest the police makes me very angry. The next time one of your "little darlings" disrupts your English class, maybe you should have one of your paid-for protestors come help you.
I have family and friends that are teachers, with that being said I have no sympathy for them. Most of June, all of July and most of August off. Weekends off, a slew of three day weekends for various holidays, week off for thanksgiving, Christmas and spring break. Teachers want this and that, fine then they should work all year round. They can have 24 vacation days, 4 baby furlough days and 4 personal days. They can go pound sand for all I care. They work about as much as firemen do
If you really have family or friends that are teachers, then you'd know that weekends and most nights are not "off". We teach during the day, but nights and weekends are when we plan, create lessons and assessments, grade papers, contact parents, complete reports, work on specials projects for the school, etc. None of that time is paid for, as we don't get any overtime. You guys want OT for checking your Blackberry at night?? We respond to emails and work at all hours on the nights and weekends, and you don't hear us whining about it.
All we want is to ensure that our pay is not drastically cut, especially considering all of the nonsense and corruption that we have to face every day. CPS wants us to pay for their corruption and incompetence, and we have every right to fight back. We didn't create this mess.
Fuck the CTU. They're on their own with this one. The day those jagoffs marched with McDonald shooting, I wrote them off and so should everyone else.
How many teachers marched? Maybe 5 or so? If you're going to write off all teachers for that, then don't get mad when people write you off for something that one of your trigger-happy colleagues did.
There's no doubt Karen Lewis is a racist and race baiter. And, her husband John Lewis a former CPS teacher at Lane Tech is just as bad. They make a great couple.
The second in command at the CTU (Can't Teach U) is Jesse Starkey and he's a part of a communist movement in Illinois, how does that fit in with democratic process he keeps alluding to and abusing?
The question is will Lewis get Jesse Jackson to make a robocall to urge a protest for the lack of Black teachers throughout CPS while pissing off all her white CTU members?
It's funny when Lewis goes on one of her rants about the lack of Black teachers and her greedy, entitled White teachers don't say a word about it. And, these White teachers will keep quiet when Lewis says there needs to more CPS leadership and teachers who live in the urban areas. Is she implying her White teachers are breaking rules by living outside Chicago? And, by not living in Chicago, is Lewis implying her White teachers can's relate to Black and Hispanic students?
Face it White CTU members, your leader is a racist and doesn't like your kind.
You can always tell who is a teacher but you can't tell them a fucking thing!
Rahm is definitely no leader!
If teachers strike , replace them with new teachers at 2/3 the salary , kids might even learn something .
All the gang bangers , most attended Chicago public schools
Over time teachers lost a lot less compared to other city positions because they always had a strike card available, and they stick together more than other unions, that's a fact. Saying they deserve less because others get less or pay more I disagree. Like any other profession they have people that care and try hard, while others could care less. I think city leadership is to blame more than anything. Chicago has enjoyed a rubber stamp policy for decades. All the people in place are there because the great machine wants them there regardless of current events. The whole state of Illinois is a national spectical of machine insider politics from top to bottom in every way.
Sorry, I appreciate your personal opinion, but at the end of the day teachers don't need your support in our decision to strike if needed. It is our job to teach and do our job the best we can with what we have. You swore an oath to serve this city. Support teachers or not, you will still have to do your job as an unbiased professional. This is not personal, this is strictly business.
12/15/2015 11:35:00 PM
You can hardly call public school teachers, "professional", they just don't fall under the definition. Take away the right to strike for starters and maybe then. Every " just contract" has nothing to do with the education of the children and everything to do with more money and benefits, more then the taxpayers can afford. There are 20 people lining up for every teaching job. I hope the next strike they mayors start replacing the strikers with people who really care.
The truth is nobody normal wants to be a cop or teacher, or anything else because of the head ache and low pay and being treated like shit by humans you serve. This justifies our pension. The only incentive on these jobs other than the fact you can save a life, or make a difference in your community everyday doing something you enjoy. Again, I applaud the CPD, but to you extremely negative people on here, I don't care if we have your support or not. I will fight for the benefit of a quality public educational system in the hopes that one day, they are funded well enough so cops and firefighters don't have to pay tuition. You are welcome. See you on the line boys and girls!
12/15/2015 11:15:00 PM
Now here is a statement filled with half truths and outright lies. Nothing like a low information " professional".
If you have a school on your beat, enforce the parking regulations around the school, strictly. If you see a car without a city sticker on it, write a ticket. If you stop a driver and they say they are a teacher and have a suburban address and not city sticker write them a citation and file a written report to the board for living outside the city. When you get a call of a fight inside the school, take your time. Do not make an arrest inside the school unless a complaint is signed by the principal and then use your discretion and judgement. Do not take orders from the school administration. They are not your friend. Karen Lewis has made racist statements in the past.
Anonymous said...
Can't strike until spring, need to go to arbitration first....
12/15/2015 12:20:00 AM
Actually it was planned that way. More time to get Springfield on board and, well, no one wants to walk a picket line in bad weather, right? These contracts have nothing to do with the welfare of the kids and everything to do with more and more for teachers . No evidence, none, that advanced degrees make a better or more effective teacher, just a reason to pay more.
How many teachers marched? Maybe 5 or so? If you're going to write off all teachers for that, then don't get mad when people write you off for something that one of your trigger-happy colleagues did.
12/16/2015 05:35:00 AM
When the FOP robo calls people encouraging them to march against the police, you have crossed the line. When the CTU advocates children to walk out of school to march for them, you have crossed the line. You have crossed the line when CTU advocates socialist views and spends Union dollars to pay people to march for those values. You have crossed line repeatedly in the left wing and liberal values you push on our children.
Nobody on the Department is supporting "trigger happy" policing. All officers would like a genuine investigation, not a politically motivated witch hunt. No members in the CTU are publically calling out the CTU for any of the above positions. You should start, or public opinion will not be on your side.
Now here is a statement filled with half truths and outright lies. Nothing like a low information " professional"
12/16/2015 10:20am
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Can you please elaborate on what portion of the statement is a half truth and which portion is a lie exactly? Many people don't take the jobs because they can make more money in the private sector. Those who take the job as a "calling" are also incentivized by the promise of a pension along with other benefits. Some people in these jobs truly are doing gods work, some are just collecting pay checks. That is CPS and CPD alike. Public education should allow everyone in a community to attend their neighborhood high school without fear or issue. The CPS needs to focus resources on improvement of existing schools and not charters or schools that keep your kids out because they run a lottery or some other system to place juiced kids in and yours out. Have fun paying ten k a year for private schools. You shouldn't have to and it is the CPS and mayors fault. Not teachers. Not cops. Not city workers. Politicians broke this state and city.
Sorry that I start to feel like Joe Pesci in casino. The state is broke, pension money is gone... I don't care, fuck you pay me. I never missed a payment. But, shit everyone loves the bean, and the 606. Seriously, teachers are the problem? 55 million for Malcolm x, seriously, teachers are the problem. The city counsel paid out 506 million in settlements in three years for CPD. The CPS needs 480 million this year. I DO NOT BLAME COPS!!! I blame the politicians. But seriously teachers are the problem? Where am I wrong or half truth, or lies ya fuck stick?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Fuck the CTU. They're on their own with this one. The day those jagoffs marched with McDonald shooting, I wrote them off and so should everyone else.
How many teachers marched? Maybe 5 or so? If you're going to write off all teachers for that, then don't get mad when people write you off for something that one of your trigger-happy colleagues did.
12/16/2015 05:35:00 AM
There were a lot more than 5, they loaded schoolbuses full of them. And we are already being written off and vilified as trigger happy by most brain dead Obama voters, so your extortionate threats cut no mustard here. Go post your anti cop bullshit on the Black Lives Matter website.
Police pay more into the pension and get to collect and retire at 50 or 55 with 20 years on. We can retire with 20 years but can't collect until 63. Give me the same deal, I'll pay more. If not, screw you. We work days and have time off. Most of that time is dedicated to our work. We get minimal overtime if at all. You get overtime for all your time. Yes we know the pay scale when we became teachers, and we were also garunteed da pension. You knew nights and weekends we not yours anymore either, but yet we hear all about you sacrificing time. Same argument made by an above post.
Well...whens the last time any of you teachers had been shot, stabbed or killed in the line of duty? Had bones broken? Removed dead bodies? Seen child abuse in it's real form? Testified in Court? Wanted to be home with your kids on their birthdays or holidays? Wanted to take a summer vacation? YOU ARE NOT ANYWHERE NEAR LIKE US !!!!!!!! We need 29 and a day to get our full pensions. That takes an emotional and physical toll on our bodies, our minds and our families. And to the BITCH who made the trigger happy comment...GO FUCK YOURSELF !!!!
YOU ARE NOT ANYWHERE NEAR LIKE US !!!!!!
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A lot more similarities than differences, actually. I'm not going to continue because I know SCC probably needs to cover more recent posts, but who do you think deals with these little darlings during the day? Who do you think calls DCFS, who do you think goes to the homes for home bound teaching? And lastly, who gets the brunt of your anger when the kids fail to read and write amidst all this craziness? The next time you feel unappreciated, just call me. I'll bring over two pieces of wood and you can nail yourself to them.
five marched that's five too many. how many P.O.'s marched zero
Did rahm resign yet?
"...What happened to Karen Lewis? She used to be good people..."
Please report to the Random Drug Testing Unit, 3510 S. Michigan Ave.
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