Chicago Teachers Strike After Midnight Talks Fail

Chicago public school teachers went on strike Monday, canceling classes in the nation's third largest school system, after marathon contract talks ended Sunday night without a deal. WSJ's Stephanie Banchero reports. Photo: Associated Press.



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[earlyhemibill]

They already average $76, 000.00 a year in Chicago, the highest in the country. How much more do they need?

[PatriotWatchUSA]

She could care less about the kids. These are the highest payed teachers in the country and they are striking.

FIRE them all

[MichaelBurmy]

If I were the superintendent, I'd say three words:

YOU'RE ALL FIRED!

[aba]

Teachers are extremely underpaid for the job they do.

[DoctorManchu]

Just give the jobs to teachers that want to work - Problem Solved

[greatgatsboo]

Romney to Democrats: "I told you the unions were no good."

[Cuzurlame]

Here's the best solution mr mayor. Let's OUTSOURCE the teachers job to a private firm, that gets rid of a union and the city holds the private firm accountable for any faults, is that simple and the city saves lots of money and at the same time know you can lower property taxes now assholes!!!

[eikweifliusxdclnuisd]

As an Obama voting 100% agree.

It cost less than 25K to get a teaching degree. It is the easiest degree to get barring a Liberal Arts degree.

75 k per year? Hell all them and start the new teachers at 50K a they're LUCKY to get that.

[Cuzurlame]

Who ever said Chicago teachers are under paid are sadly miss informed, let's see they get a pention which is unheard of nowadays, they get 2 months of vacation, all holidays off with pay, and look at a school parking lot I see a lot of BMW's, cadillacs, and Mercedes yet they make no money, fire them all now!!!

I thought Yahoo had stopped allowing comments on the Chicago teachers story but they are back again. i wonder if they stop allowing comments awhile and then go back to allowing them? Has anybody else noticed times where yahoo seems to hide comments or was I just having trouble with my computer?

[wjksea]

Yeah... did he conveniently leave out the biggest union of them all? THE UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?

[DJAnthonyillWill]

Stephanie "lisp" Banchero reporting. Jesus Christ! I'd love to hear her say "she sells seashells down by the seashore."

[wjksea]

The leverage with the dems then is that one can hold them to their stated platform. If you vote in the party of cons they can tell you that you got what you bargained for.

[wjksea]

Private prison where the corporations can extract more profits from the people? Standards of living are rising in other countries around the world. The global corporate capitalists who prey on people by extracting the wealth that is derived from the labor and creativity of others might dry up. Even the communist nations that corporations troll in seeking cheap sweat shop child labor are having their standards of living improving.