Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s school team is locked in a tense negotiation with the Chicago Teachers Union over a new teachers contract.
The threat of a teachers strike looms; CTU President Karen Lewis says that an informal poll of members at 150 schools shows “overwhelming” support for a strike. Lewis told reporters that she has “never seen anything like the hostile climate that exists right now.”
Strike talk in April. Before negotiations have even officially hit an impasse. Not a good sign.