Nearly 26,000 teachers in Chicago walked off their jobs following months of failed negotiations between the teachers union and the city government over a new contract
CHICAGO - Chicago teachers went on strike on Thursday and set up picket lines outside many of the city’s 500 public schools, as union leaders and officials of the third-largest U.S. school district pushed ahead with negotiations over a new contract.
“I’m hopeful. I’m here to stand up for teachers and the future teachers,” said Pamela Wasson, a bilingual special education teacher in her 34th year of teaching as she picketed in front of her North Side elementary school. Flanked by dozens of teachers and parents outside a North Side elementary school, union President Jesse Sharkey said he expected to “keep making progress” in negotiations on Thursday.
“I think we put a good a very good deal on the table. I think we have a framework in place to get a deal done, but as the saying goes it takes two to tango,” she said on Thursday. “This is not really a dollars-and-cents strike,” said James Phelps, a 59-year-old American history teacher. “The mayor literally campaigned on equal distribution of resources. Why hasn’t she agreed to that?”
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