Chicago's teachers strike hits day four Thursday with no deal between the teacher's union and the school board, and Rev. Jesse Jackson offering to find away to bridge the chasm between the teacher's union and the school board.
But after Wednesday, a day that both sides did not meet until late in the evening, some were not optimistic.
"The sense of urgency within the room does not comply with the sense of urgency in the streets," Jackson told reporters late Wednesday. "They should be meeting around the clock. With each passing day, the pain is compounded."
Though formal negotiations did not start until after 7 p.m. CT and went until after midnight, the parties involved in the negotiations were more optimistic.
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What do u expect from unions, they are just doing their job, which is greed without a care for anybody else.
Kinda like the corporate worlds atti tude towards the common worker, huh ? If not for the unions, the corporations would still be paying "everybody" minimum wages.
Yeah, just like our government.
Like little brats saying that if you don't give them what they want, they aren't even going to show up. (as opposed to staying-on and teaching as negotiations proceed. Kids first and all that rubbish)
It's time we crush teachers unions and weed-out the undesireables who teach our kids for themselves rather than for our kids.
Love it and completely agree. Infantile spoiled adults teaching infants, and this is the mess that results. Get Scott Walker to break this abomination up. Rahm Emmanuel is too incompetent. He is about as good a mayor as Obama was community organizer, and that is why Chicago is a mess.
I do not see why teaching should be a profession that doesn't get paid...even those who preach the word of the Lord every Sunday get paid for services rendered.
And, thankfully, Scott Walker has nothing to do with Illinois, and never will.
Anytime I see the name "Reverend Jesse Jackson", it's never good.
Candidly I take great joy in seeing Rahm Emmanuel contend with this. Always hated that slippery devious weasel. Here we have leftist pigs in a battle royale in the pile of stench they made for themselves. Rahm was all about the union driving out to ghettos to load unsophisticated voters onto charter buses to hoodwink them into getting Obama elected. Illinois is broke, Chicago is broke, and ineffective teachers, highest paid in the land, are demanding more money for less work and no accountability. What will you do now, Rahm the weasel?
They're not the "highest paid in the land".
New York City teachers are.
They also want to extend the day without compensation.
They have also been 'negotiating' their contract for ten months.
For a teacher you sound very vindictive. Since Arkansas has a median teacher's salary of over $46K and the cost of living, housing etc is much less than Chicago. That coupled with the lack of rampant gang violence, you're not doing so bad?
@PT:
I have my doubts that this person is a teacher at all, let alone knows thing one about Chicago.
At least Chicago still has the Chicago Bears football team, for now. I wouldn't be surprised to see them moving to a different city in the coming years. No offense, Dick Butkus. He played defense anyway.
Lol.
Why?
Nah, there has been talk about a new stadium since forever.
And to a different part of the *city*?
Naaaaah. It's in the best place now.
DA BEARS
I misread.
You wrote a 'different city'.
In the coming years?
You may be right.
Many different teams have already done that same exact thing.
After all, Soldier Field is even older than Wrigley...
Only so much retro-fitting that can be done.
Nations where workers are allowed to form groups as leverage vs. employers are generally broke. The non-workers union nations lending them money to cover essentials like social security are flush with cash.
This is just an observation, not a comparison between modern workers unions and those of days gone by. (like workers unions in Nazi Germany and what they did with their power of leverage)
And @bobcat. Most US workers are non-union, and most US corporations treat their workers kindly.
You are no-doubt just refering to Big Corpa that did and would underpay and abuse workers who were forced to mount a defense by forming unions.
80% of US work for small companies that employ fewer than 200 people and are treated fairly. Why all the focus is on the 20% of US who slave for giant corporations when the topic is jobs and the economy is a mystery.
Small businesses have always been the backbone of the US economy. (source: NFIB)
National Federation if Independent Businesses.
As fine a lobby group as I've ever seen.
That should read *of*, not *if*.
@ Philip
Yes I was reference was toward big corporations. Most of my smaller family owned companies are normally very fair to their employees. The ones I worked with offered excellent benefits and treated the workers as family. Any disputes or grievances were handled by counselors such as myself. Layoffs were few and far between and very miniscule when they were warranted.
I'm not a union lover myself, as I have seen the corruption in the heirarchy. The unions have in some cases way overstepped thei boundaries and caused many companies to go out of business. But in the situations where you have a corporation that is "only" interested in what they can get out of their employees at the lowest rate possible, then I see the need for a union.
Wow, my wording is atrocious today
Should have been "I was referencing big corporations. " And Most of our smaller family owned companies."
I have no problem with employees forming groups to defend themselves against crooked amd/or greedy employers. Where I have a problem is with HUGE unions that misuse their leverage meant for employees and use it for particular politicians.
And, of course the NFIB bribes congressmen. It's the only way things ever get done on the hill these days. Even groups of citizens like those found at http://www.truthinlabeling.org bribe congressmen these days. Lobby/bribe...Potato/potahto.
7 yr. Colorado Springs Police veteran Joshua Carrier faces 150 criminal charges related to the raypeing of 22 boys at Horace Mann junior HS last year. (2010-2011 school year) He claims it's all a misunderstanding. Trial begins Sept. 25.
It's not the crusty old men in the alley you have to worry about when it comes to your boys. It's the openly gay men you already trust that are the likely suspects when it comes to boy raype. Even gay priests/preachers.
He ra ped 22 boys in one year?
Damn, you'd think that they'd vett their teachers better, or is he a friend if Sandusky's?
Gotta be on the lookout for closeted pedos these days, as well...
The days of need of Unions is and has been PAST. Now they are all about holding the rest of the USA Hostage, Greed and Power. If You dont see this, you are on the take as well. Prove me wrong.
When businesses stop selling out their employees, as we have seen again and again, via outsourcing to make a bigger buck, perhaps the need for employee representation will die a natural death.
Until then, I don't see unions going away anytime soon.
Late at night isn't the best time to be negotiating. (Jesus faced criminal charges in front of the jewish High Court, the Sanhedrin. Although it was illegal to conduct trials at night, Jesus was still tried, and all jews knew it was illegal. Very few spoke-out in public in protest)
And of course anyone who is interested in Israel today knows that German Nazis donated the funds to buy the land and build todays Israeli Supreme Court complex, and that Israel's judges are mostly Freemasons. And so now, every trial is held at night. (spiritual darkness)
Did you know that the Rothchild family insisted that a wooden cross be inlaid into the floor where Israeli judges deliberate? Yep. They literally "trample on the cross" as they decide Supreme court cases.
And I realize how some view 'Jesus' as a dirty word around here and would rather see more funding of Israel's MOSSAD. But I am a US citizen with hard fought-for rights to free speech. No. It wasn't US TROOPS fighting the US Supreme Court for our rights to speak and assymble freely. It was an entirely different sort of army who lined-up against the Supreme Court and won our rights at great cost;. Citizens.