CPS teachers ready and willing to walk.
Stand for Children’s Jonah Edelman thought he had outfoxed the CTU with SB7 strike requirements. He never understood unions.
When Jonah Edelman and Stand for Children came to Illinois, one of their main agenda items was to make our teacher unions impotent. He targeted Chicago teachers’ right to strike.
He was helped by some of our own IEA leadership who sat on the committee that led to Senate Bill 7.
Senate Bill 7, among other things, set a high bar for Chicago teachers to Strike.
75% had to vote yes.
It shows how little Edelman understand unions. When we took a strike vote in 2003, we knew before the vote exactly how many teachers would vote yes. We had no intention of walking out if we only had a simple majority
Tell Scott Walker he’s not welcome in Illinois.
The in box. False truths and scapegoating. IFT’s Montgomery responds to Ingram and Cross.
I am disappointed that Mr. Ingram has decided to advocate for diminishing the reasonable, Constitutional retirement benefits of tens of thousands of Illinois educators and retirees. For TRS this is, indeed, a new direction that embraces a politically expedient approach while providing significant cover to politicians determined to welch on the state’s decades-long promise to workers and retirees.
There is no denying that our pension systems are in serious need of stabilization. The combination of politicians’ schemes to skip payments and the creation of an unrealistic repayment plan, combined with the recent deep recession, are all factors that have created the funding challenges we face. But let’s be clear: benefits are not to blame. What’s more, teachers have always faultlessly paid their portion of their contribution toward the retirement systems…and they still do.
For many years teachers have watched as politicians, corporate executives and editorial page
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