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the chicago teachers union strike is now entering its third day under the
leadership of the caucus of rank-and-file educators that chicago
teachers union pushed hard in negotiations with the city
early on the seat that teachers union made the decision to declined an offer
of pay increases combined with layoffs
the city wooden agree to the teachers' unions kore demands including expanding
our programs music programs that underfunded schools et cetera they voted
overwhelmingly ninety percent of teachers and ninety-eight percent of
those who cast ballots to authorized the strike
it doesn't look right now looks like the strike is gonna be breaking anytime soon
at least as of us going on here
yeah can you imagine is if we were in school and something like this happens
it or schools
idbi likely the kids must be what it well three hundred fifty thousand fins
are being kept out of school
is a question you know at the time like i can remember being in high school at
the time and and polite i would've loved it to be completely honest now of course
having a completely different understanding of what this means for the
teachers and what it means for education and so many of the implications that are
there
uh... different perspective for sure but i wonder what the kids do you think you
have now there's a lot of uh...
all operators for people who claim that
that chicago teachers actually are some of the highest paid
uh... in the country which of course is terrible it's terrible for teachers to
be well-paid
but you know they are being there they're kind of uh... uh...
claiming this is
this is a parker senior something of the sort watercolor teachers union president
karen lewis said uh... yesterday afternoon late yesterday afternoon
there has not been as much movement as we would hope there's been let's put it
this way centimeters
and we're still call on the yours apart so what we'll see what happens president
obama has been mostly avoiding weighing in on this very were using the metric
system we are now of course well part of why that's cool that school system must
be so uh... so great in the stitches are making so much you know the logic of the
metric system
uh... president obama seems to just kind of you avoiding weighing in on this and
it's understandable because he's going to end up beginning between unions
teachers
rahm emmanuel the mayor of uh... of chicago
and voters it's probably the right thing to do polytical e
does it make any difference whether he ways that are not republicans if course
being critical of president obama for not getting involved but
is this really even an issue that the president needs to be
involved in the nitty-gritty of i don't know
i would say no and not only because he said
running a campaign right now height
i think this is something he he can and should avoid but uh...
it would be a very easy way to get the hot water if if he did
the outside seems limited
we now we've heard the president of ominous and decide what to do based on
the political repercussions but it almost seems like he doesn't even really
have anything that he could add by getting involved
will keep an eye on that as well