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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: jnevis on October 20, 2011, 11:12:48 AM
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CHICAGO – After lobbying in parking lots, allegations of vote manipulation and a shouting match that ended with a hug, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has persuaded just 13 out of hundreds of Chicago schools to break with their union and accept cash in exchange for lengthening the school day for the city's students.
But the teachers union has cried foul and wants the schools to be forced to return to their old schedules. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board will take up the issue Thursday when it considers a union appeal to block the longer school day from taking effect pending a hearing in December over allegations of unfair labor practices.
... Just another day in Chicago
"It's not the longer day, it's how we were forced to give up some of our rights to do it," said Shelley Nation-Watson, a fifth-grade teacher at Nash Elementary School who voted against the longer school day implemented at the building. "It's not that we're refusing to do something just to be obstinate. You (have to) do it the right way." Never stopped them before
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Meanwhile, aggressive lobbying has occurred to vote for and against the longer school day measure at schools across the city. There even have been allegations of dirty tricks, with reports that Nash Elementary voted to extend its school day only after a non-union staffer was allowed to vote to break a 14-14 tie.
Nash Principal Tresa Dunbar has said she's turned the matter over to the school board to be investigated and has encouraged her teachers to move on with the longer day in the meantime.
"We're wasting a lot of time arguing about something we're all going to do (next year)," Dunbar said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/20/chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuel-fights-union-over-longer-school-day/?test=latestnews (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/20/chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuel-fights-union-over-longer-school-day/?test=latestnews)
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CHICAGO – After lobbying in parking lots, allegations of vote manipulation and a shouting match that ended with a hug, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has persuaded just 13 out of hundreds of Chicago schools to break with their union and accept cash in exchange for lengthening the school day for the city's students.
But the teachers union has cried foul and wants the schools to be forced to return to their old schedules. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board will take up the issue Thursday when it considers a union appeal to block the longer school day from taking effect pending a hearing in December over allegations of unfair labor practices.
... Just another day in Chicago
"It's not the longer day, it's how we were forced to give up some of our rights to do it," said Shelley Nation-Watson, a fifth-grade teacher at Nash Elementary School who voted against the longer school day implemented at the building. "It's not that we're refusing to do something just to be obstinate. You (have to) do it the right way." Never stopped them before
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Meanwhile, aggressive lobbying has occurred to vote for and against the longer school day measure at schools across the city. There even have been allegations of dirty tricks, with reports that Nash Elementary voted to extend its school day only after a non-union staffer was allowed to vote to break a 14-14 tie.
Nash Principal Tresa Dunbar has said she's turned the matter over to the school board to be investigated and has encouraged her teachers to move on with the longer day in the meantime.
"We're wasting a lot of time arguing about something we're all going to do (next year)," Dunbar said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/20/chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuel-fights-union-over-longer-school-day/?test=latestnews (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/20/chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuel-fights-union-over-longer-school-day/?test=latestnews)
If Rahm was as smart as he thinks he is he would have offered the cash to the Union leaders instead of the schools.
Bribery, "It's the Chicago way".