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Originally Posted by Vlajos
Does anyone know what the CTU thinks they gain by striking? CPS raises taxes every year and can barely balance its budget. Pension coats continue to skyrocket with no end in sight. The Mayor has offered a very generous pay increase. Maybe if CTU agreed for less pay and benefits CPS could hire a few more nurses and librarians. What do they really want and where will the money come from?
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Well considering they have the entire city at gunpoint they can literally just hold us up until they get whatever they want. I think Lightfoot should respond to this by retracting all the concessions she has already made and say "No more work until you agree to return at prior terms". Just starve the fuckers out, I have zero sympathy for the CTU at this point. Send in the national guard and crush their protests with rubber bullets for all I care.
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Originally Posted by IrishIllini
I think teaching is generally a thankless job and a lot of people don’t respect the profession, but I can’t help but feel this strike isn’t about the kids at all. CPS was just given $1b to reduce classroom sizes and put all that money towards pensions. $1b isn’t a ton of money, but it’s frustrating that money intended to decrease classroom sizes went straight into the pension black hole. I support union members, but how are we supposed to negotiate with public unions?
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Let's get this straight, teaching is not a "thankless job" that's a load of shit. It is a highly respected profession where you get paid like $70k a year on average to work 9 months and you also get a constitutionally guranteed pension and full healthcare. The notion that it is "thankless" is hot bullshit propaganda by the CTU.
Let me tell you a little story about how much the CTU "Cares about the kids":
My wife is one of six kids. He three older brothers and one of her sister in laws are all teachers. Her brother and sister and law who are both teachers used to live here in Chicago and teach at CPS. They were both CTU members during the last strike and she was pregnant about to give birth. She literally gave birth a few weeks early on the first day of the last strike with a lot of complications and my nephew was in the NICU. The dirtbags at the CTU REQUIRED that at least one of them show up to the protests, didn't matter that their newborn was fighting for his life, gotta show up to beg for more handouts. They literally forced my brother and law to leave the hospital and his wife and newborn son to go out and protest so that the fat cats running the union can continue to concentrate power for themselves.
Man the CTU really cares about the kids! Except when they are premature newborns fighting for their lives in an incubator at the hospital...
To make things even better, my Sister in Law's job was gone after she went on maternity leave. She came back and, because of the mornic union rules, her permenant position had been given up to someone else and she was now only eligble to work as a temp where she would get assigned to whatever shooty neighborhood was looking for a warm body to get harassed all day long.
Needless to say they only put up with that for another year or two before they both found jobs in Singapore teaching at a fancy diplobrat school there and GTFO of Chicago. The main motivation for leaving was the kind souls who run the CTU.
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Originally Posted by Vlajos
It's extremely frustrating as a City taxpayer and CPS parent. I like teachers and think they deserve to be paid well, but there simply isn't enough money for all their demands. On top of all this, CPS continues to lose students by the thousands.
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Honestly my wife and I are buying and renovating a SFH on the edge of Old Irving and, for a second, considered sending our kids to Belding since it's a great school and free. The reemergence of this strike has eliminated any and all consideration of subjecting our kids to this nonsense. Cathlotic School it is, less enrollment for CPS it is. The last thing I want is for my children to be force fed this CTU bullshit propaganda all day long. I don't want my kids to grow up to be a bunch of loafers who expect to extort their way to personal gain.