The real world trumps liberal dogma?

[whitehall]

You almost gotta laugh, it seems that former Obama chief and current Chicago Mayor Rohm Emanuel is fighting against municipal union demands.

 

[bodecea]

You almost gotta laugh, it seems that former Obama chief and current Chicago Mayor Rohm Emanuel is fighting against municipal union demands.

And...?

 

[buckeye45_73]

You almost gotta laugh, it seems that former Obama chief and current Chicago Mayor Rohm Emanuel is fighting against municipal union demands.

And...?

It's hilarious, dont you agree? I applaud Rahm for that.

 

[occupied]

Rahm Emanuel is a liberal like Hitler was a socialist. He may sometimes talk the talk but in the end he is just a power hungry prick.

 

[whitehall]

Maybe Emanuel is a pragmatic SOB who just wants to get the best deal for the poor people in Chicago even if it means fighting municipal unions.

 

[occupied]

Maybe Emanuel is a pragmatic SOB who just wants to get the best deal for the poor people in Chicago even if it means fighting municipal unions.

He just spent millions on some rather military looking police equipment and security measures, that's about the limit of his concern for the poor people of Chicago.

 

[P@triot]

Rahm Emanuel is a liberal like Hitler was a socialist. He may sometimes talk the talk but in the end he is just a power hungry prick.

Um, "power hungry prick" is the very definition of liberal.

 

[whitehall]

Maybe Emanuel is a pragmatic SOB who just wants to get the best deal for the poor people in Chicago even if it means fighting municipal unions.

He just spent millions on some rather military looking police equipment and security measures, that's about the limit of his concern for the poor people of Chicago.

Maybe Emanuel is smarter than we thought He must have met Obama appointee Van Jones who once led an arson and looting rampage and now pulls the strings in the OWS movement so he has a better insight to potential anarchy than most mayors.

 

[occupied]

Rahm Emanuel is a liberal like Hitler was a socialist. He may sometimes talk the talk but in the end he is just a power hungry prick.

Um, "power hungry prick" is the very definition of liberal.

I checked Webster's and apparently that is not the very definition of liberal.

 

[occupied]

Maybe Emanuel is a pragmatic SOB who just wants to get the best deal for the poor people in Chicago even if it means fighting municipal unions.

He just spent millions on some rather military looking police equipment and security measures, that's about the limit of his concern for the poor people of Chicago.

Maybe Emanuel is smarter than we thought He must have met Obama appointee Van Jones who once led an arson and looting rampage and now pulls the strings in the OWS movement so he has a better insight to potential anarchy than most mayors.

It's more like he made some powerful friends in the defense industry who would like very much for America to fear populist movements on the left.

 

[Two Thumbs]

You almost gotta laugh, it seems that former Obama chief and current Chicago Mayor Rohm Emanuel is fighting against municipal union demands.

Linkage please

I need to read this to beleive the any liberal isn't rolling over for unions.

 

[francoHFW]

Things are so black and white for idiot dupes. LOL

 

[Annie]

You almost gotta laugh, it seems that former Obama chief and current Chicago Mayor Rohm Emanuel is fighting against municipal union demands.

Linkage please

I need to read this to beleive the any liberal isn't rolling over for unions.

Here's one:

Emanuel allies stand in for mayor in union battle - Chicago Tribune

Emanuel allies press attack in teachers union battle
Advocates close to mayor behind ads slamming union leaders but deny or decline comment on coordination with City Hall

* Mayor Rahm Emanuel has tried to appear above the fray in contentious contract negotiations between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union, with surrogates pushing his education agenda over the airwaves and organizing "grass-roots" support for his various policies.

June 22, 2012|By Jeff Coen and Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune reporters

As Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces a deepening standoff with the Chicago Teachers Union this summer, allies and political messengers close to him have once again emerged to take a tactical fight public on his behalf.

In the days leading up to this month's overwhelming vote by the union to authorize a strike if negotiations over a new contract fail, radio listeners around Chicago heard ads urging parents to contact teachers so they would "do right by the kids." Since the vote, similar ads are airing that criticize union leaders.

The ads were produced by John Kupper of AKPD Message and Media, the self-described "lead message strategist" for Emanuel's 2011 mayoral campaign who, according to AKPD's website, "continues to advise the mayor on a daily basis."

Kupper declined to say whether he had discussed the publicity campaign with Emanuel. "My conversations with the mayor are a private matter," he wrote in an email to the Tribune.

Asked at a school event Thursday whether he had any knowledge about the radio ads before they aired or whether he talked to anyone at AKPD about them, Emanuel said, "No."

The effort is just the latest example of Emanuel allies doing the heavy lifting of public-relations work while the mayor seeks to stay above the fray on a contentious issue. The ads are sponsored by an affiliate of Democrats for Education Reform, an organization that has supported Emanuel's push for a longer school day and more charter schools and also has implored the Chicago Teachers Union to negotiate with the mayor's administration on a new contract.

"The radio ads were done for our client," Kupper wrote in an email. "Any information about them would have to come from them."

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A New Union Battle As Chicago Teachers, Mayor Clash : NPR

A New Union Battle As Chicago Teachers, Mayor Clash

by Cheryl Corley

June 20, 2012

There hasn't been a school strike in Chicago for 25 years. But the current contract between Chicago teachers and the Chicago Public Schools expires at the end of next week, and tensions between the teachers union, the school district and Mayor Rahm Emanuel are ratcheting higher.

Chicago Teachers Union members outmaneuvered the mayor, school officials and anti-union education groups by overwhelmingly approving a measure that allows teachers to strike if contract negotiations fall flat.

About 90 percent of CTU's membership — nearly 24,000 workers — voted this month to support a strike if one is called.

The dispute has prompted comparisons to Wisconsin, where a firestorm over collective bargaining ultimately resulted in a recall election there earlier this month...

Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard adds that no one in the city is looking to mirror Wisconsin, which grabbed the country's attention for months after Gov. Scott Walker introduced contentious changes curtailing the collective bargaining ability of most public-sector unions.

"No Wisconsin here — and I don't think we need Wisconsin here," Brizard says. "But ... I don't want my kids being caught in the middle of all of this. I don't want my families anxious about what's going to be happening in September."

Robert Bruno, a labor professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, says that while both the union and school board can draw lessons from the Wisconsin saga, Emanuel — former chief of staff to President Obama — may have another question to consider.

"How exactly does it look to have a major collective-bargaining dispute — a strike of public-sector workers — in his home city, on the eve of a tight presidential election with battleground states all around Illinois?" Bruno asks.

It may not come to that. Both the union and the school board say they're looking for common ground as the negotiations continue. And, says CTU's Karen Lewis, that 90 percent strike authorization vote is making those negotiations just a little bit easier.