Chicago teachers unions out of touch as usual

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Originally Posted by Riot

Strange. Where employers have offered better deals than what employees can get bargaining as a group - oh, better educating students, paying teachers more - unions don't have support.

Unions dont have support because they make decisions like the ones listed in the article in this thread. Only people who are completely out of touch can't see what the teachers unions in most places have become. People are finally seeing the hypocrisy of people that defend the unions like you do even when they are absolutely taking a stance that is virtually undefendable.

Rahm wants to pay the teachers to teach, wants to get the kids in class longer, wants to get rid of bad teachers. He isn't exactly a rightwing fanatic that you make everyone who is tired of the union bullshit out to be. The union is too worried about leverage and self-interest to see that they are exposing themselves.