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Originally Posted by Ether
Chicago. Average teacher salary: $76,000.00, not including benefits. Offered 16% pay raise. Went on strike.
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It's far, far more complex than that.
Many Chicago classes had 40-50 students to a room, many had no air conditioning, the city broke their 4% contractual pay raise, and from what it looks like has been trying to sweep all the widespread and deep systemic problems under the rug by throwing money on the teachers to keep them complacent. They went on strike despite being offered 16% because the 16% was never what they wanted in the first place, and Emmanuel appears to be the one trying to make it about money to avoid dealing with the real issues.
Here's a 1-page summary of the Union demands, and none of them involve paychecks.
I agree with Tom Line though, let's try to keep politics out of this.