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Would HIGHLY recommend reading the his whole article. The Chicago Teacher's Union vs Chicago Public Schools is probably one of most important, large scale collective action stories happening right now (the other being the AL Amazon warehouse unionizing) 🧵 @therecount/1356317097857581057Permalink On twitter.com
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Between 1988 and 2011, the CTU didn't go on strike once. Since then, they've gone on strike in 2012, 2016, and 2019. If this pandemic dispute escalates into a strike that'll be 4 in the last decadePermalink On twitter.com
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As a result, CPS is kinda scared shitless. They wanna force the teachers back in classrooms but they ALSO don't want to provoke strike action.Permalink On twitter.com
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They keep setting dates for when in-person instruction is supposed to start, but they stop short of locking the teachers out of their online platforms. In response, the teachers don't show up and the date gets movedOn twitter.com
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There's a lot of organizing happening behind the scenes, especially in terms of getting parents on the teachers' side. CPS knows that a lot of working parents need their kids babysat, so they make the teachers out to be the selfish villains who won't let parents workPermalink On twitter.com
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Other thing that makes it hard is the pandemic itself. They can't exactly form a picket line, otherwise the politicians will go "Oh so you don't want to catch COVID teaching OUR kids but you WILL congregate outside the schools to picket???" which y'know death sentence opticsPermalink On twitter.com