Affordable housing among striking Chicago teachers' demands

Source: Yahoo/AP
Published: Oct 21, 2019
Author: KATHLEEN FOODY and DON BABWIN
Post Date: 2019-10-23 07:14:49 by Dakmar
Views: 3288

CHICAGO (AP) — Striking Chicago teachers who are seeking smaller class sizes and higher pay also are demanding that the nation's third-largest city do more to lower housing costs and put more resources into helping homeless students.

The demand for affordable housing citywide — for students and their financially-strapped families as well as for school employees — stands as a dramatic example of organized labor's effort to expand bargaining beyond bread-and-butter issues.

The pursuit is part of the union's "social justice" agenda and is a unique departure from standard negotiating tactics. Despite early rejection by city officials, teachers argue that the issue belongs on the bargaining table.

After months of negotiating , the Chicago Teachers Union's 25,000 members began striking Thursday along with thousands of support staff.

Talks that continued through the weekend and into Monday made some progress but didn't resolve key disagreements, including teachers' demands for stricter class size limits and more support staff in schools, and classes remained canceled for more than 300,000 students.

The union on Monday also flatly rejected Mayor Lori Lightfoot's request to return to classrooms while contract talks continue.

Neither side has spoken publicly about any discussion of the affordable housing issue during bargaining sessions. But the union has made clear that the issue is an important one for its membership.

Chicago is certainly not the only U.S. city where the issue of affordable housing for teachers and other school employees is significant. But Robert Bruno, a professor of labor and employment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said he doesn't know of any other cities in which the issue has pushed its way into contract negotiations.

He said that's because the chasm continues to grow nationwide between teachers' salaries and the cost of affordable housing at a time when urban school districts also are having an increasingly difficult time recruiting and retaining teachers.

"Teacher unions around the country are watching this very closely," Bruno said.

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#1: noone222    To: Dakmar (#0)

Should have requested "bullet proof vests" !

noone222 posted on 2019-10-23 07:26:04   Reply   Private Reply

#2: Dakmar    To: All (#0)

"What do we want?"

"Affordable housing!"

"How are we going to get it?"

"Raise property taxes!"

Dakmar posted on 2019-10-23 07:26:29   Reply   Private Reply

#3: Dakmar    To: noone222 (#1)

I think all the schools in the south and west sides have TSA style metal detectors at all the entrances. That's why we never hear about black kids shooting up schools.

Dakmar posted on 2019-10-23 07:28:31   Reply   Private Reply

#4: BTP Holdings    To: Dakmar (#0)

striking Chicago teachers

Strangely enough, the CTU pension fund was the only one that did not lose money.

Other funds like the State Employees Retirement System (SERS) had to give their members a 20% cut since the fund made poor investments. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2019-10-23 07:43:03   Reply   Private Reply

#5: Dakmar    To: BTP Holdings (#4)

Yep, the Chicago police have been working without a contract for about a year. No raises for them.

Dakmar posted on 2019-10-23 07:46:31   Reply   Private Reply

#6: Dakmar    To: BTP Holdings (#4)

I just looked on Zillow, unless you want to live in the gold coast, Chicago housing prices looked pretty reasonable. Some great deals if you have the skills to un-ape the property.

Dakmar posted on 2019-10-23 07:51:36   Reply   Private Reply

#7: BTP Holdings    To: Dakmar (#5)

the Chicago police

No raises for them.

I knew a guy the cops picked up. They had him in the back seat asking him questions.

He said, "I'd like you to meet my Uncle Ulysses." He slipped them a $50 and they dropped him off at the next corner.

That guy is dead a very long time. He was murdered by the Puerto Ricans. :-/

BTP Holdings posted on 2019-10-23 07:53:17   Reply   Private Reply

#8: Dakmar    To: BTP Holdings (#7)

I forgot about all the PRs in Chitown. They are as much of a dealbreaker as the coons. Not sure what their deal is, but every PR I've ever met was crazier than a shithouse rat.

Dakmar posted on 2019-10-23 07:58:14   Reply   Private Reply

#9: BTP Holdings    To: Dakmar (#6)

un-ape the property

I knew a guy that was a guard at the Cook County Jail. When the news hit that MLK, Jr had been killed, they cancelled the leaves for all the guards.

One black guard since he had a good job, he was able to get a mortgage on a 4-flat. He lived on 2nd floor.

He opened the door to go to work and there was a black guy standing on the landing below. He was ready to light a Molotov Cocktail.

He said to him, "Whatchoo think you doing?"

The black guy said, "I'll show whitey. I'm gonna burn down this building."

The Deputy pulled his pistol and killed him right where he stood.

My friend asked him, "How are you going to explain that?"

The black Deputy said, "When they come along and pick him up, it's just another dead nigger."

The good blacks call the bad blacks niggers too. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2019-10-23 08:02:31   Reply   Private Reply

#10: BTP Holdings    To: Dakmar (#8)

crazier than a shithouse rat

That must be from the race mixing. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2019-10-23 08:03:36   Reply   Private Reply

#11: NeoconsNailed    To: Dakmar (#8)

ROFL LMAO! And may I say, good Sir or Madam, I love your plain English ;-)

NeoconsNailed posted on 2019-10-23 08:17:54   Reply   Private Reply

#12: NeoconsNailed    To: BTP Holdings (#9)

I knew a guy that was a guard at the Cook County Jail. When the news hit that MLK, Jr had been killed, they cancelled the leaves for all the guards.

Just one of the THOUSANDS of ways they rob us, from having to leave our lights on to dissuade burglars to suffering home invasions and race riots.

A guy I knew lived in like Seattle -- somewhere up thar. A crazed nignog stood on top a bldg in a busy downtown and sprayed humans with bullets. That one incident KILLED that entire area's commerce. How many whole downtowns have they stolen from us? I remember pre-riots Plainfield.... and weep.

NeoconsNailed posted on 2019-10-23 08:23:55   Reply   Private Reply

#13: Lod    To: Dakmar (#2)

"What do we want?"

"Affordable housing!"

"How are we going to get it?"

"Raise property taxes!"

Bingo!

Lod posted on 2019-10-23 09:25:42   Reply   Private Reply

#14: sneakypete    To: Dakmar (#0)

I am guessing none of those union "teachurs" took or give any classes in "logics".

sneakypete posted on 2019-10-23 11:36:57   Reply   Private Reply

#15: Dakmar    To: sneakypete (#14)

Basic arithmetic seems beyond their comprehension.

Dakmar posted on 2019-10-23 11:39:28   Reply   Private Reply

#16: Lod    To: Dakmar (#15)

Math is social injustice and RayCiss. (Ask Seattle)

Lod posted on 2019-10-23 12:36:37   Reply   Private Reply

#17: Dakmar    To: Lod, BTP Holdings, sneakypete, noone222, NeoconsNailed (#16)

Working people have stuff. We want their stuff. They won't give us their stuff, they are greedy. This is the mindset, best I can tell, of every unionized public sector ever, best I can tell.

F.D.R. Warned Us About Public Sector Unions, NYTimes, July 23, 2014

“… Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the government. All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations … The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for … officials … to bind the employer … The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives …

“Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees. Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people … This obligation is paramount … A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent … to prevent or obstruct … Government … Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government … is unthinkable and intolerable.”

It's amazing how quickly things have devolved. In 2014 I probably would have scoffed at the idea that the entire public education apparatus was such a transparent shakedown. Screw it, at this point granting school charters to the Latin Kings and the Blackstone Rangers would be one hell of a lot more honest, and I have no doubt the captives would receive a better education under such an arrangement.

Dakmar posted on 2019-10-23 16:01:17   Reply   Private Reply

#18: NeoconsNailed    To: Dakmar (#17)

FDR makes sense for once. Wouldn't it be nice if the NEA dried up and blew away!

What's our position on Reagan's busting of the air controllers' strike, gang?

NeoconsNailed posted on 2019-10-23 16:19:31   Reply   Private Reply

#19: Dakmar    To: NeoconsNailed (#18)

Whenever a public sector union has a disagreement with their employer, the Democrats (miraculously, lol) become their counsel.

Sounds kinda hinky, like rife for abuse :) Who is representing the owners / aka "the people" ?

Dakmar posted on 2019-10-23 16:31:35   Reply   Private Reply

#20: Dakmar    To: NeoconsNailed (#18)

Wouldn't it be nice if the NEA dried up and blew away!

Department of Education was created by Jimmy Carter.

GWB should have nixed it when he had both houses of Congress. Trump had the same window and let it slam shut.

Dakmar posted on 2019-10-23 16:36:13   Reply   Private Reply

#21: NeoconsNailed    To: Dakmar (#20)

Didn't W promise to slay NEA? Somebody did. The infrastructure of evil remains inviolate till it conquers and then some.

NeoconsNailed posted on 2019-10-23 16:42:26   Reply   Private Reply

#22: Dakmar    To: NeoconsNailed (#21)

Didn't W promise to slay NEA? Somebody did.

Reagan did, before he got shot.

Dakmar posted on 2019-10-23 16:44:07   Reply   Private Reply

#23: NeoconsNailed    To: Dakmar (#22)

And started seeing what a wonderful place the USSR was.

NeoconsNailed posted on 2019-10-23 16:45:33   Reply   Private Reply

#24: BTP Holdings    To: Dakmar (#17)

granting school charters to the Latin Kings and the Blackstone Rangers

At least with the Blackstone Rangers they could learn Ebonics. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2019-10-23 18:30:29   Reply   Private Reply

#25: BTP Holdings    To: Dakmar (#20)

Trump had the same window and let it slam shut.

True, but the thing is how much of the damage done by Obummer could Trump fix simply by reversing his Executive Orders?

Besides that, even though the Republican controlled both houses of Congress, how much could he accomplish with the regular party members with all the Neocons looking to sabotage his efforts?

We must remember one thing, Trump as POTUS has the right to regulate just about anything he wishes. But most things need to be handed off to other departments. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2019-10-23 18:35:41   Reply   Private Reply

#26: Dakmar    To: BTP Holdings (#25)

So you're saying the entire system may be corrupt?

Dakmar posted on 2019-10-23 18:49:26   Reply   Private Reply

#27: NeoconsNailed    To: BTP Holdings (#25)

Has Trimp zapped any of Obongo's EOs?

NeoconsNailed posted on 2019-10-23 18:53:07   Reply   Private Reply

#28: sneakypete    To: Dakmar (#20)

GWB should have nixed it when he had both houses of Congress.

His mommy probably wouldn't let him.

sneakypete posted on 2019-10-23 19:43:19   Reply   Private Reply

#29: BTP Holdings    To: NeoconsNailed (#27)

Has Trimp zapped any of Obongo's EOs?

www.washingtontimes.com/n...ld-trump- reverses-obamas-legally-dubious-execu/

BTP Holdings posted on 2019-10-23 20:13:43   Reply   Private Reply

#30: NeoconsNailed    To: BTP Holdings (#29)

Among the actions Mr. Trump has taken since Jan. 20 are pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement (a U.N. accord never ratified by Congress), revoking deportation amnesty for young illegal immigrants called “Dreamers” (to Republicans’ complaints that he was exceeding his authority, Mr. Obama dared lawmakers: “Pass a bill”), decertifying the Iran nuclear deal (and requesting more congressional input), ending government subsidy payments to insurance companies under Obamacare (never approved by Congress), and rolling back about 800 other Obama-era government regulations on a broad front, including portions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law.

Can we believe all that? Gaud knows I want to.

NeoconsNailed posted on 2019-10-23 20:54:45   Reply   Private Reply

#31: BTP Holdings    To: NeoconsNailed (#30)

Can we believe all that? Gaud knows I want to.

A good President will have many knowledgeable advisors close at hand and ready to tell him what needs to be done. And giving Obummer's unlawful E.O.s the axe is a step in the right direction.

As far as the Paris climate accords go, science has disproved global warming and show it is sunspot activity that controls the temperatures on Earth. ;)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maund er_Minimum

BTP Holdings posted on 2019-10-23 21:16:55   Reply   Private Reply

#32: BTP Holdings    To: NeoconsNailed (#18)

Reagan's busting of the air controllers' strike

Reagan did the right thing. Air controllers are the most important thing about flying anywhere in the world. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2019-10-23 21:21:01   Reply   Private Reply

#33: NeoconsNailed    To: BTP Holdings (#31)

But can we believe Tramp did all that? ;)

NeoconsNailed posted on 2019-10-23 21:58:23   Reply   Private Reply

#34: GreyLmist    To: Dakmar (#17)

at this point granting school charters to the Latin Kings and the Blackstone Rangers would be one hell of a lot more honest, and I have no doubt the captives would receive a better education under such an arrangement.

I vote to grant school charters to the SDF/State Defense Forces aka the Militias of the States. Military Academies would be much better geared towards teaching an appreciation of our Constitution and country than public schools have been, imo.

GreyLmist posted on 2019-10-23 22:19:17   Reply   Private Reply