Chicago Teachers Union president says threat of strike "very high"
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Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis says the threat of a teachers strike this year is "very high."
Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis says the threat of a teachers strike this year is "very high."
Lewis made the comments during a taping of WLS-890 AM's "Connected to Chicago with Bill Cameron." The radio show airs at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The district's last teachers strike was in 1987. A sweeping set of education reforms signed by the governor in June, though, makes it tougher for teachers to strike. The union now must reach a higher threshold vote of 75 percent of members to strike. And the reforms lengthen the timeline, requiring steps that would take four to six months before
