Chicago Public Schools cancels classes after union votes to go virtual
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I grew up in a UAW family and I’ve always supported unions but teachers unions need to be treated like other essential services: Public sector employees that are not entitled to strike.
“It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.” - George meany
I'd first note that politicians and government bureaucracy is a very large layer of indirection between the public and the government employees.
Second, how does that justify unsafe working conditions for employees that have not been granted any special powers? I know teachers who are afraid that these policies will kill them or someone they love. This danger is not part of the job description, there was no warning that "if you or your loved ones are immunocompromised you may be asked to put them in harms way for the good of society".
> “It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.” - George meany
This doesn't seem to match the empirical evidence. Public sector unions across the world have done it fairly successfully for over a century. In countries that didn't gut private sector unions it's not like public employees have a much sweeter deal than everyone else, just a decent standard of living.
I think part of what contributes is that the city is still using the 10-day quarantine guideline instead of the updated shorter one from the CDC?
Still it seems to have been handled rather poorly but, easy for me to judge from the outside... must be hectic internally especially since it was just the holiday season.
Hopefully the next Republican administration will stop feeding Illinois funds and just allow them to go bankrupt - and begin the process of rebuilding.