CHICAGO EDUCATION BOARD: STRIKE AUTHORIZATION VOTE INVALID

[Omaha Steve]

Source: WLS-TV

CHICAGO -- The Chicago Board of Education wants a state body to invalidate a recent vote by the teachers union to authorize a strike.

The Chicago Tribune reports Friday that the board views the strike authorization by the union as "inherently flawed."

Chicago Teachers Union members voted overwhelmingly last week to authorize their leaders to call a strike. That vote gives union leaders leverage in ongoing talks with Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration over a new contract.

The Tribune says the school board has sent a memo to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board arguing that the union cannot hold such a vote until contract talks go through additional stages.


Chicago Teacher's Union President Karen Lewis

Read more: http://abc7chicago.com/education/chicago-education-board-strike-authorization-vote-invalid/1136164/

[Truprogressive85]

1. The perfect storm

With tension high already in Chicago pissing off teachers is the last thing you want to do

[hobbit709]

2. This move once again points out what the problem in Chicago is.

Rahmbo just keeps showing his ass.

[tazkcmo]

4. Third Way

DLC. Hillary supports Rahm, he's wonderful!

[Proserpina]

3. Invalidate an election? Shades of Florida!

What dirty trick will they implement next?

[roguevalley]

8. I LOATHE Boards. THey are about the biggest problem in American ed. They hate you until

they need you. Then they hate you because they need you.

[mucifer]

5. My city. It's so sad. I have a friend who is a teacher working on the strike

He sees it all being hard and depressing. I was hoping things might look good for them because the mayor is so unpopular now. He says no everything is a big mess.

City government has really messed up the public schools. Between privatizing schools and closing schools and privatizing the janitorial service that is going so badly that parents have gone in to help clean the bathrooms.

[Plucketeer]

6. What Rham needs

is a seasoned community organizer.

[roguevalley]

9. as an old teacher, i would prefer he went to prison for 20 years but that's just me. :D:D

[Plucketeer]

10. My comment was in jest.

I truly hope Rahm falls from grace and falls HARD. My spouse is a retired teacher and union officer. We stand with teachers everywhere.

[trillion]

11. Thanks, for a second I thought you were serious.

Yes, he needs community organizer against him. But I think he just earned that. If the teachers can't strike the parents will. A perfect storm is brewing there.

[roguevalley]

14. you and me both

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. I support the teachers. School Boards have been taken over by RW corporatists intending to

damage the system so they can privatize it. Shame on them. Power to he Teachers!

[socialist_n_TN]

12. This is the same type of shit they always pull.........

That's what Taft-Hartley was all about in the beginning, blocking union power and by extension blocking the power of the entire working class. To be effective at real change, a union has to ignore stuff like this.

[mike_c]

13. my faculty union held a strike authorization vote before completing...

...the statutory process for failing contract negotiations-- 94% in favor. There is nothing wrong with conducting the vote early. We just can't walk out until after the theater is all done. I presume the same is true in Chicago.