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Saturday, October 19, 2019

Going on strike is not for the faint of heart. The Trib’s Kristen McQueary is Chicago’s cross to bear. – Fred Klonsky

Going on strike is not for the faint of heart. The Trib’s Kristen McQueary is Chicago’s cross to bear. – Fred Klonsky

GOING ON STRIKE IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART. THE TRIB’S KRISTEN MCQUEARY IS CHICAGO’S CROSS TO BEAR



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What the Trib’s Kristen McQueary calls “strike-hungry teachers” at Logan Square’s Darwin elementary school. Have you ever seen such an evil looking bunch?

The Trib’s Kristen McQueary handles the paper’s union-bashing beat. She’s not the only Trib reporter writing anti-union crap, but she may be the most unbearable.
Maybe John Kass.
I go with McQueary.
Today she writes about a teacher whose name I won’t mention who in 2016 crossed the picket lines during the CTU’s one day strike. He’s crossing the picket lines again this week.
Kristen McQueary found the one guy who is never going to be remembered in song as another Joe Hill.
I don’t know the guy, but I knew guys like him.
There was one in 2003. He was just a terrible teacher and to my ever-lasting regret, as union president I worked really hard with administration, his principal and his CONTINUE READING: Going on strike is not for the faint of heart. The Trib’s Kristen McQueary is Chicago’s cross to bear. – Fred Klonsky