{"id":9087,"date":"2012-09-13T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T22:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=9087"},"modified":"2012-09-13T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T22:08:04","slug":"more-on-chicago-teachers-strike-via-cocal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/09\/more-on-chicago-teachers-strike-via-cocal\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Chicago teachers strike via COCAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

More on the Chicago teachers strike<\/p>\n

Letter from CTU President Lewis<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.beyondchron.org\/news\/index.php?itemid=10480<\/a><\/p>\n

and http:\/\/readersupportednews.org\/opinion2\/274-41\/13414-focus-why-were-striking-in-chicago<\/a><\/p>\n

Great blog posting from a Chicago teacher on “Why I am Striking” (Posted by Xian Barrett, who is a known to me personally and a gifted teacher and union leader (and the son of another gifted teacher, union leader and organizer and labor historian James Barrett and union leader and activist Jenny Barrett of U of IL:\u00a0http:\/\/chiteacherx.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/why-im-striking-jcb.html<\/a>\u00a0and another at http:\/\/dianeravitch.net\/2012\/09\/11\/a-chicago-teacher-why-i-am-striking\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/labor\/chicago-teachers-uprising-takes-1-percent-mayor-and-labor-establishment-boot?page=0%2C1&akid=9370.1087795.dUMnNN&rd=1&src=newsletter707851&t=3<\/a><\/p>\n

and\u00a0 http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/09\/10\/standing_up_to_rahm\/\/<\/a><\/p>\n

and a possible custodians sympathy strike http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/politics\/clout\/chi-some-chicago-public-schools-custodians-may-strike-20120911,0,595858.story<\/a><\/p>\n

and\u00a0 http:\/\/www.aflcio.org\/Blog\/Organizing-Bargaining\/Chicago-Teacher-Strike-Fighting-for-Students<\/a><\/p>\n

and http:\/\/labornotes.org\/2012\/09\/how-chicago-teachers-reached-boiling-point<\/a><\/p>\n

Statement from IEA President Cinda Klickna\u00a0http:\/\/www.ieanea.org\/media\/2012\/09\/9-9-Statement-from-IEA-President-Cinda-Klickna.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

and http:\/\/www.laborradio.org\/Channels\/Story.aspx?ID=1771148<\/a><\/p>\n

and http:\/\/www.laborradio.org\/Channels\/Story.aspx?ID=1771146<\/a><\/p>\n

and http:\/\/www.laborradio.org\/Channels\/Story.aspx?ID=1770669<\/a><\/p>\n

and http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/09\/10\/us-usa-chicago-schools-analysis-idUSBRE8890VS20120910<\/a><\/p>\n

and videos https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HNCTdwJQLQk&feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n

and https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HyYatvriZMw&feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n

and the Director of the private school where Rahm Emanuel sends his kids (U of Chicago Lab School) says standardized tests are the wrong measure for teachers.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.beyondchron.org\/news\/index.php?itemid=10486<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/chicago-teachers-strike-places-obama-at-odds-with-key-part-of-political-base\/2012\/09\/11\/df89a776-fc2a-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_print.html<\/a><\/p>\n

and finally\u00a0 http:\/\/truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/11482-greg-palast-the-worst-teacher-in-chicago<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More on the Chicago teachers strike Letter from CTU President Lewis http:\/\/www.beyondchron.org\/news\/index.php?itemid=10480 and http:\/\/readersupportednews.org\/opinion2\/274-41\/13414-focus-why-were-striking-in-chicago Great blog posting from a Chicago teacher on “Why I am Striking” (Posted by Xian Barrett, who is a known to me personally and a gifted … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2272],"tags":[2591,524076,1288960],"class_list":["post-9087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strikes-labor-disputes","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-teachers-strike","tag-strikes-labor-disputes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9087"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9091,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions\/9091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}