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Can't say I've been looking

Elusive Trope — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:59:49 +0000

In reply to Chicago schools brace for possible strike over Rahm Emanuel's reforms

Can't say I've been looking at this in any detail. Just watching the peripheral reactions, including the liberals I know, and all I can say is that the Chicago teachers have no clue about Public Relations - i.e. none of them took a communications course when they were getting their degree. Strikes of this nature and media coverage are more about perception than substance, and in this arena they have totally failed.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel to

artappraiser — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 02:24:36 +0000

In reply to Chicago schools brace for possible strike over Rahm Emanuel's reforms

Mayor Rahm Emanuel to striking Chicago teachers: See you in court

By Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, September 16, 2012, 6:32 p.m.

The Chicago teachers strike may not end the way they want it to: Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced plans Sunday evening to sue the union and force what he called an illegal strike to end immediately.

“I will not stand by while the children of Chicago are played as pawns in an internal dispute within a union,” the mayor’s office said in a statement. “This was a strike of choice and is now a delay of choice that is wrong for our children.”

After little over two hours of reportedly contentious deliberation on Sunday afternoon, 800 teachers union delegates voted against ending the strike after negotiators from the district and the union had reached a tentative deal [....]

This is no surprise at

AmericanDreamer — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:30:45 +0000

In reply to Wow: Paul Ryan on Chicago

This is no surprise at all--if he was going to comment, that is. As between laying into a teachers' union versus laying into the Mayor of Chicago that was totally predictable.

This must be "try to impress an independent" week for R/R.

Wow: Paul Ryan on Chicago

artappraiser — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:19:41 +0000

In reply to Chicago schools brace for possible strike over Rahm Emanuel's reforms

Wow:

Paul Ryan on Chicago Teachers’ Strike: ‘We Stand with Mayor Rahm Emanuel’
The Note @ ABC News, September 10

PORTLAND, Ore. — Paul Ryan crossed party lines and voiced support for one of President Obama’s biggest backers today, saying, “We stand with Mayor Rahm Emanuel” in his fight with Chicago’s teachers, which led the union to call the city’s first teachers’ strike in 25 years.

“If you turned on the TV this morning or sometime today, you probably saw something about the Chicago teacher’s union strike,” Ryan said at fundraiser at the Governor Hotel here. “I’ve known Rahm Emanuel for years. He’s a former colleague of mine. Rahm and I have not agreed on every issue or on a lot of issues, but Mayor Emanuel is right today in saying that this teacher’s union strike is unnecessary and wrong. We know that Rahm is not going to support our campaign, but on this issue and this day we stand with Mayor Rahm Emanuel.” [....]