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Mayor Rahm Emanuel tried bullying tactics, saying:
"I will not stand by while the children of Chicago are played as pawns in an internal dispute within a union.""I have instructed the City's Corporation Counsel to work with the General Counsel of Chicago Public Schools to file an injunction in circuit court to immediately end this strike and get our children back in the classroom."
"I have also asked the President of the Board of Education, David Vitale, and the CEO of Chicago Public Schools, Jean-Claude Brizard, to explore every action possible to get our kids back into a classroom or educational facility."
Emanuel is both politician and corporate predator. He's contemptuous of rights teachers, parents and kids deserve. He wants Chicago public education destroyed.
He wants it commodified into another business profit center. Teaching and learning don't matter. Bottom line priorities count most.
Workers have only their labor to withhold. Strikes are legally and morally justified. Rights aren't handed them. Hard fought struggles win them. There's no other way.
Chicago teachers are on the front lines for theirs. Emanuel and corrupt union bosses want them denied. Hopefully they'll hold firm. It's too soon to know. Battle cries should chant all the way or no way. Quitting isn't an option. Nor is comprising what's essential.
All core issues demand equitable resolution. Key is keeping education public. So is preventing dozens of school closures and other vital terms too important to sacrifice.
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