Chicago Teachers: Apparently a 16 percent raise not good enough

[TheGreatGatsby]

Chicago teachers were offered a 16 percent raise (during a bad economy).

Chicago teachers strike for first time in 25 years; contingency sites ready, charters remain open - Chicago Sun-Times

And Chicago teachers are already the highest paid in the nation at $76,000 before benefits! I'm assuming they have lofty medical/pensions that pushes that number into six figures!

How Much Do Chicago Public School Teachers Make? « CBS Chicago

This is why people just don't give an f about public unions any more. They think they can get grossly over compensated and hold us hostage at any moment.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Oh and don't forget that they get 3 months vacation and a generous allotment of sick days too.

 

[Papageorgio]

Emanuel is trying to break the unions! The bastard! Impeach the son of a bitch.

 

[waltky]

Chicago teachers want 19% pay raise in this economy???...

Thousands of teachers strike in Chicago, parents scramble
10 Sept.`12 - Thousands of public school teachers formed picket lines in Chicago on Monday and parents scrambled for child care during their first strike in a quarter century over reforms sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and endorsed by President Barack Obama's administration.

Some 29,000 teachers and support staff in the nation's third-largest school system were involved, leaving parents of 350,000 students between kindergarten and high school age to find alternative supervision. "There's no excuse for either side for not coming to an agreement," said Faith Griggs-York, mother of a first-grader at Agassiz Elementary School, as she dropped her daughter off at a community center a mile from the school. "I think both sides, because of what they are doing to parents and because of what they are doing to kids, should be embarrassed," Griggs-York said.

Churches, community centers, some schools and other public facilities were ready on Monday to care for thousands of children under a $25 million strike contingency plan financed by the school district. The children will be supervised half a day and receive breakfast and lunch, allowing some parents to work. "What are these families going to do? Are you going to stay home from work today because of this?" U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said on CNN. "What is going to happen to your son or daughter?" "Both sides need to get back to the table as quickly as possible and really stay there and negotiate through the night if necessary. Get it over with quickly so we can get these kids back in school," Durbin said.

Talks resumed on Monday morning in the months-long contract negotiations. Emanuel is among a number of big city U.S. mayors who have championed such school reforms and Obama's education secretary, Arne Duncan - a former head of Chicago public schools - has endorsed them. The Chicago confrontation also threatens to sour relations between Obama's Democratic Party and labor unions before the presidential election on November 6. While Obama is expected to win the vote in Chicago and his home state of Illinois, union anger could spill into neighboring Midwestern states such as Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio, where the race with Republican challenger Mitt Romney is much closer.

'TRAIN WRECK'

 

[alan1]

Chicago teachers were offered a 16 percent raise (during a bad economy).

Chicago teachers strike for first time in 25 years; contingency sites ready, charters remain open - Chicago Sun-Times

And Chicago teachers are already the highest paid in the nation at $76,000 before benefits! I'm assuming they have lofty medical/pensions that pushes that number into six figures!

How Much Do Chicago Public School Teachers Make? « CBS Chicago

This is why people just don't give an f about public unions any more. They think they can get grossly over compensated and hold us hostage at any moment.

Let's see, the average teacher salary (individual person) in Chicago is $76,000.
The median (I know median is different than average) household (not an individual, but the household) in Chicago is $46,350. Chicago, IL Jobs, Unemployment Rates & Median Household Income

So, individual teachers make almost $30,000 more than the the typical household and they are sniveling about their salary?

 

[American_Jihad]

How Much Do Chicago Public School Teachers Make?

June 12, 2012 3:59 PM

A Chicago Public Schools spokesperson said average pay for teachers, without benefits, is $76,000.

How Much Do Chicago Public School Teachers Make? « CBS Chicago

 

[uscitizen]

Chicago teachers were offered a 16 percent raise (during a bad economy).

Chicago teachers strike for first time in 25 years; contingency sites ready, charters remain open - Chicago Sun-Times

And Chicago teachers are already the highest paid in the nation at $76,000 before benefits! I'm assuming they have lofty medical/pensions that pushes that number into six figures!

How Much Do Chicago Public School Teachers Make? « CBS Chicago

This is why people just don't give an f about public unions any more. They think they can get grossly over compensated and hold us hostage at any moment.

Umm your link made no mention of what the issues were that caused the strike.
Linky please.

 

[uscitizen]

Chicago teachers want 19% pay raise in this economy???...

Thousands of teachers strike in Chicago, parents scramble
10 Sept.`12 - Thousands of public school teachers formed picket lines in Chicago on Monday and parents scrambled for child care during their first strike in a quarter century over reforms sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and endorsed by President Barack Obama's administration.

Some 29,000 teachers and support staff in the nation's third-largest school system were involved, leaving parents of 350,000 students between kindergarten and high school age to find alternative supervision. "There's no excuse for either side for not coming to an agreement," said Faith Griggs-York, mother of a first-grader at Agassiz Elementary School, as she dropped her daughter off at a community center a mile from the school. "I think both sides, because of what they are doing to parents and because of what they are doing to kids, should be embarrassed," Griggs-York said.

Churches, community centers, some schools and other public facilities were ready on Monday to care for thousands of children under a $25 million strike contingency plan financed by the school district. The children will be supervised half a day and receive breakfast and lunch, allowing some parents to work. "What are these families going to do? Are you going to stay home from work today because of this?" U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said on CNN. "What is going to happen to your son or daughter?" "Both sides need to get back to the table as quickly as possible and really stay there and negotiate through the night if necessary. Get it over with quickly so we can get these kids back in school," Durbin said.

Talks resumed on Monday morning in the months-long contract negotiations. Emanuel is among a number of big city U.S. mayors who have championed such school reforms and Obama's education secretary, Arne Duncan - a former head of Chicago public schools - has endorsed them. The Chicago confrontation also threatens to sour relations between Obama's Democratic Party and labor unions before the presidential election on November 6. While Obama is expected to win the vote in Chicago and his home state of Illinois, union anger could spill into neighboring Midwestern states such as Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio, where the race with Republican challenger Mitt Romney is much closer.

'TRAIN WRECK'

Is this about education or babysitting services?

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Chicago teachers were offered a 16 percent raise (during a bad economy).

Chicago teachers strike for first time in 25 years; contingency sites ready, charters remain open - Chicago Sun-Times

And Chicago teachers are already the highest paid in the nation at $76,000 before benefits! I'm assuming they have lofty medical/pensions that pushes that number into six figures!

How Much Do Chicago Public School Teachers Make? « CBS Chicago

This is why people just don't give an f about public unions any more. They think they can get grossly over compensated and hold us hostage at any moment.

Umm your link made no mention of what the issues were that caused the strike.
Linky please.

They are getting paid handsomely. That alone warrants not striking.

 

[Katzndogz]

The strike is primarily over a change in policy that would fire poorly performing teachers. The union is insisting that bad teachers be kept.

 

[uscitizen]

So it is not over a 16% pay raise as the not so great Gatsby said?

 

[Katzndogz]

So it is not over a 16% pay raise as the not so great Gatsby said?

Only partly. There is more than that one issue. The teachers want to stop charter schools and guarantee that teachers who don't perform won't be fired. To say that this is just over salary increases is oversimplifying.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

So it is not over a 16% pay raise as the not so great Gatsby said?

Actually it is__ Apparently the union wanted a 35 percent pay increase!

 

[ScienceRocks]

These teachers are protesting because Chicago wants to judge them on improvement(increasing the standards). The teachers couldn't care less if these kids fail in life as already 80% of them are already not meeting national standards.

Fuck them all.

 

[regent]

So it is not over a 16% pay raise as the not so great Gatsby said?

Actually it is__ Apparently the union wanted a 35 percent pay increase!

Usually wages are thought of as the cause of a strike but perhaps there is more involved in the strike than just salary.

 

[whitehall]

There are a lot of issues involved. The City government wants to take direct control of the city schools and the municipal unions don't like it. Chicago teachers only make about 72k with lavish benefits and a long paid vacation while there is a realistic 15% unemployment in the area. You wouldn't mind if the kids were actually learning anything but the Chicago school system stands at the bottom of the education barrel and the teachers talk like street junkies. If the city administration was republican the left wing media would be all over the issue promoting the strikers but the mayor is a left wing democrat so there isn't much publicity about it and president Hussein is busy with his own problems.

 

[blimpo]

Tell them about the 9 month school year.

 

[uscitizen]

So it is not over a 16% pay raise as the not so great Gatsby said?

Actually it is__ Apparently the union wanted a 35 percent pay increase!

Your link said nothing of why.

And how many years is the pay increase over?

 

[uscitizen]

Tell them about the 9 month school year.

Yeah they only get paid for 9 months.
And many have to take courses over the summer on their own dime to keep their job.

 

[American_Jihad]

On Sharpton's Radio Show, Union Director Raves That Teachers Started an 'Arab Spring' Against Emanuel

9/10/12

Last year in Wisconsin, the liberal media picked up the very insulting comparison that protesting government employees in Wisconsin were creating an "Arab Spring" for Gov. Scott Walker, as if he were an Arab dictator. "It's like Cairo moved to Madison," said ABC anchor Diane Sawyer. Now that the teachers are on strike in Chicago, this insulting meme has now shifted to Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

On Monday's edition of the Al Sharpton radio show -- titled Keepin' It Real -- Sharpton asked Stacy Davis Gates, the political director of the Chicago Teachers Union, "What does the city need to do to bring this strike to an end?" She announced there was an Arab Spring breaking out in Chicago:

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On Sharpton's Radio Show, Union Director Raves That Teachers Started an 'Arab Spring' Against Emanuel - Liberal Roundup