In today's installment of teachers better make some fucking concessions, Bruce Rauner picks up where Forrest Claypool left off. We learn:
- Rauner is selling faulty idea that the CTU is a dictatorship and controls everyone from the mayor to the mayoral appointed School Board and is responsible for the financial malfeasance of Chicago politicians. Rauner: “The power of the teachers union has been overwhelming. Chicago has given and given and given. It’s created a financial crisis that the Chicago schools face now...” Unlike Bruce Rauner, the CTU can't issue Executive Orders rescinding laws, as Rauner did 10 weeks into his term. Maybe Rauner was at his wine club when Mayor Daley issued pension holidays to divert the funds.
- Rauner finds the notion of destroying teachers' unions and all public-sector unions empowering. Rauner, "We believe the right answer is to empower the people of Chicago, the voters, the mayor...should be enabled to decide what gets collectively bargained." Wisconsin residents likely don't find it empowering that dismantling unions has meant lower median incomes and average earnings growth.
- Rauner sees no value in students who attend our schools as he talks about the benefits of outsourcing (i.e., firing everyone's union ass) to save money. No doubt he's ensured TFA's contract is paid-in-full so a steady stream of replacements are at the ready.
Online comments continue to show Rauner and Rahm's highly effective manipulation of the media and public perception continues:
- "It is those CTU thugs that have failed children."
- "Amend the constitution to eliminate those outrageous pensions."
- "Entitlement! Give me more than I've rightfully earned! Screw everyone else, I want mine!"
- "Too bad we can't eviscerate the CTU...they're all corrupt, inefficient, radical leftists anyway."
Thugs! Outrageous pensions! Entitled leftists! Yes, everyone still fully on board with Plan A: concede, swine.
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