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LP: Rahm strikes out in court again.
The battle between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) escalated sharply Sunday evening when only hours after the Chicago Teachers Union House of Delegates voted to continue the strike, Emanuel announced that he would be seeking an injunction against the strike. But come Monday morning, the judge said that he would prefer to schedule a hearing on the injunction for Wednesday or Thursday - after the union delegates meet again to discuss the contract on Tuesday.
The threat of an injunction came after the CTU House of Delegates voted to continue striking until Tuesday to give members time to consider the 180-plus pages of the tentative agreement on offer from Chicago Public Schools (CPS).
“This attempt to thwart our democratic process is consistent with Mayor Emanuel’s bullying behavior toward public school education,” said the CTU statement.
This brings the strike of around 30,000 public school teachers in the country's third largest school district into its second week. The union is seeking to push through wage and evaluation demands along with what they say are desperately needed changes like air conditioner in schools, more counselors and support staff and a cap on class sizes.
CTU president Karen Lewis, speaking to reporters after the House of Delegates meeting Sunday that voted to continue the strike, said that there were several areas of concern to the delegates including teacher evaluations and recall benefits that led them to call for more time to see the contract. But the biggest problem for delegates and members, said Lewis, are the planned closings of more than 100 public schools in the next five years and the subsequent teacher displacement.
"It undergirds just about everything they talked about," said Lewis about the delegate's concerns.
Full Story: http://truth-out.org/news/item/11572-chicago-teachers-continue-strike-emanuel-to-push-for-injunction
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