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Sep 17 2012
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Weighing offer, Chicago teachers remain on strike
Chicago teachers uncomfortable with a tentative contract offer decided Sunday to remain on strike, insisting they first wanted to consult with their full membership before deciding whether to end an acrimonious standoff with Mayor Rahm Emanuel that will keep 350,000 students out of class for at least two more days.
Washington TimesSep 10 2012
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Teachers in Chicago Will Strike After Talks Collapse
In a move that could affect 350,000 students, union leaders for Chicagos public schoolteachers said they would strike after talks ended Sunday with no contract agreement.
New York Times (News)Sep 17 2012
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Chicago Teachers Strike Enters Second Week
Many Chicagoans had assumed that school would restart on Monday, but a tentative agreement won only modest support among union members over the weekend.
New York Times (News)Mar 21 2024
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House GOP strikes 'final position' on teacher pay, school funding, AEAs
The Iowa House has narrowly passed a package to hike teacher pay, increase general state support for schools and keep Area Education Agencies as the main provider of experts who assist schools with special education needs for students. House Speaker Pat Grassley of New Hartford told reporters it provides certainty for students with disabilities and their parents and, in total, amounts to a 5%
Radio IowaMar 21 2024
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The Chicago Teachers Union has become a model for radical left wing organising
A parties go, the mood was bleak. On March 19th primary-election voters in Chicago were asked to vote on a ballot measure that would have raised the transfer tax on properties worth over $1m so as to generate money to pay for homelessness relief. The measure was backed by the city’s entire progressive establishment. Its opponents, mostly from the real-estate industry, did not even bother to
The EconomistJan 31 2024
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No school in Newton Thursday as teachers strike stretches on
NEWTON, MASS. (WHDH) - Negotiations continue in the ongoing Newton teachers strike, which will have forced kids out of school for two full weeks now that officials have announced there will not be school on Thursday for the tenth day. Emotions continue to be tense on both sides, which remain about $15 million apart on a contract. “My kids aren’t going to school again, this has gone too far,”
WHDH 7Feb 15 2024
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St. Paul Public Schools teachers authorize strike
St. Paul educators agreed again Thursday to authorize a strike against the state's second-largest district, the fourth time they've done so in as many bargaining cycles. A walkout now can be called with 10 days' notice, but the two sides are in mediation. Under those rules, the earliest that St. Paul Federation of Educators (SPFE) leaders could launch a strike countdown would be Feb. 26.
Star TribuneFeb 26 2024
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St. Paul Public School teachers to file intent to strike
(ABC 6 News) – Teachers in St. Paul could walk off the job next month.
The union representing them said on Monday that teachers intend to strike unless an agreement can be reached.
The union said, if they can’t come to terms in the next two weeks, their strike will start on march 11.
More than 92% of union members voted to authorize a strike earlier this month.
The
ABC 6 KAALJan 25 2024
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5th day of strikes for Newton teachers
FINES, THEY COULD JUMP SIGNIFICANTLY TODAY. ANTOINETTE THE LONGER THIS STRIKE CONTINUES, THE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS MORE THE TEACHERS UNION WILL HAVE TO PAY UP HERE. AS OF 8:00 LAST NIGHT, THE TEACHERS UNION OWES $175,000 IN FINES. IF THE STRIKE IS NOT RESOLVED BY 8:00 TONIGHT, THAT FINE WILL JUMP UP TO $375,000. THIS IS THE FIFTH DAY CLASSES ARE CANCELED IN NEWTON, BUT THERE ARE SIGNS
WCVBOct 16 2019
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No classes, parents scramble as Chicago teacher strike looms
CHICAGO (AP) — Parents and community groups are scrambling to prepare for an expected strike by Chicago teachers that prompted city officials to preemptively cancel Thursday’s classes in the nation’s third-largest school district.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said during a news conference that the district’s 25,000 teachers represented by the Chicago Teachers Union would almost certainly walk
Associated Press