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Related: About this forumThom Hartmann: Chicago Teacher's Strike - Education is now get-rich-quick scheme for corporate CEOs!
Gloria Steinem, Womens Rights Activist joins Thom Hartmann. The nations third largest school district is without teachers today. After contract negotiations fell through over the weekend, the Chicago Teachers Union declared a strike and walked off the job this morning. This is the first time Chicago teachers have gone on strike in 25 years. Altogether 29,000 teachers and school workers are joining in on the strike to demand better pay, working conditions, and stop the march toward privatization of the citys schools. At the heart of the strike are several issues: One is a four-percent pay increase teachers were promised last year but was cancelled by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Instead, the mayor is asking teachers to work a longer school day. Also, teachers are asking for a state limit on classroom sizes a law thats in place in 32 other states, but not in Illinois. Plus, teachers are trying to reverse the Mayor's plans to slash public education funding and use that money to create 250 non-union, for-profit charter schools. Chicago has now become ground-zero in the battle over how we as a nation will educate our children. Will we embrace the public school system that Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann worked so hard to create and support teachers who perform one of the most important jobs in our society? Or, will we hand off educating our kids to the money-changers and corporate CEOs who see education as a get-rich-quick scheme? Keep an eye on the Windy City.
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Thom Hartmann: Chicago Teacher's Strike - Education is now get-rich-quick scheme for corporate CEOs! (Original Post)
thomhartmann
Sep 2012
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Gloria Steinem, "women's rights activist," interviewed about the Chicago Teachers Union strike?
proverbialwisdom
Sep 2012
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proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)1. Gloria Steinem, "women's rights activist," interviewed about the Chicago Teachers Union strike?
This fact alone ought to be sufficient to increase the number of interested DUers. Or do people buy into the ridiculous idea that support for "women's rights activists" requires topics to be strictly limited to reproductive/sex-related issues?
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)2. Did I hear that right? Emmanual has a
$25 million break the strike fund?
He is coming off as such a smug smarmy creep in all of this (Rahm Emmanual).