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Friday, June 15, 2012

Collective Bargaining the Chicago Way. « Fred Klonsky

Collective Bargaining the Chicago Way. « Fred Klonsky:


Collective Bargaining the Chicago Way.



Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis speaks to the news media after casting her ballot during a strike authorization vote at a Chicago high school
It’s kind of like they never took Chicago teachers seriously.
Now some do.
Some still don’t.
Some self-described labor relations experts tell us that the strike authorization vote is all just part of the normal collective bargaining process.
And that’s true.
But a 98% yes vote (And here I choose to use the way the entire world looks at vote results: as a percent of