If I were a member of the Chicago Teachers Union, I would vote for that strike authorization today. Mayor Rahm Emanuel hasn’t given me much choice.
Then I would pray — a lot — that a strike never occurs. And get on the phone to CTU President Karen Lewis to tell her she would be absolutely bonkers to actually take ’em out this fall.
The facts of life, Chicago-style, are that the CTU — arguably the city’s most powerful labor union — is in the fight of its life this economically difficult time.