This just in: CPS teachers denied pay raises. Now what?
As I suggested would happen in the last post, Rahm the Bomb’s mayoral controlled school board, reaping the benefits of the SB7 strike hobbling provisions, have voted to deny union teachers their contractually promised pay raise.
This is what Ken Swanson calls a national model of teacher cooperation.
But now what?
Karen Lewis and the CTU leadership were elected on a platform of militant teacher unionism.
The new Chicago Board of Education selected by Mayor Rahm Emanuel unanimously voted down a scheduled 4 percent raise for Chicago Public Schools teachers Wednesday.
Citing a looming hole in the budget for next year, board members said they did not have a reasonable expectation that the district had the money to fund the raises, which would add up to about $100 million.
The yearly raises are part of the Chicago Teachers Union contract, but they are