By Andrew Stiles, National Review Online
Over the past several decades, American teachers’ salaries and benefits have increased steadily, while the academic performance of the nation’s students has stagnated.
By Samantha Bomkamp, Chicago Tribune
Hotel workers are protesting at Hyatt’s annual meeting on Monday as part of the long-running labor dispute between the chain and the union representing housekeeping staff and other workers.
By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune
As Chicago Public Schools prepares to issue budgets for individual schools to principals, the Chicago Teachers Union is predicting that hundreds of its members could be laid off because of the district’s ongoing budget woes.
By Max Rivlin-Nadler, Gawker.com
A strike that lasted ten years and became a fixture of Chicago’s “Magnificent Mile,” finally ended Wednesday when workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel offered to return to work with no conditions.
By Noreen Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Teachers Union on Wednesday filed a third lawsuit to stop school closings.
By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, John Chase and Bob Secter, Chicago Tribune
Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings.
By Michelle Relerford, NBC Chicago
A group of McDonald’s workers say they serve food every day, but are struggling to feed their own families.
By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah and John Byrne, Chicago Tribune
Pressured for months by teachers, community leaders and aldermen, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s hand-picked school board is nonetheless expected on Wednesday to approve closing all but a few of the 53 elementary schools the administration wants to shut down.
By Victor Skinner, EAGnews.org
The Chicago Teachers Union is at it again.
The Huffington Post
The Chicago Teachers Union will wrap its three-day march in protests of Chicago Public School closings with a Monday afternoon rally in Daley Plaza.