Claypool blinks on pension pick-up. Militant "showdown" action still planned for April 1st.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. --Frederick Douglas
CTU Pres. Karen Lewis calls for a "showdown" on April 1st.
Another way to say it is, if you don't hit it, it won't fall. Well, Karen Lewis and the CTU hit hard at Forrest Claypool's threatened dropping of the 7% pension pick-up, and it fell, at least for now.
Unilaterally dropping the pension pick-up, especially in the middle of contract negotiations, was a serious enough contract violation that the union was prepared to strike on April 1st. On top of that, Claypool announced more lay-offs at CPS and then ordered a 3-day unpaid furlough across the entire system.
But faced with a imminent strike, which would have certainly been another, maybe the last, nail in the mayor's political coffin, Rahm pulled back the leash on his attack dogs yesterday and Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Claypool blinks on pension pick-up. Militant "showdown" action still planned for April 1st.:
