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* Labor strikes are serious business, but it’s important that striking workers try to keep morale as high as they can. Most strikers just shout chants on the picket lines, but the CTU has taken this to a whole other level. My personal favorite…
Ok this is delightful. @CTULocal1 performing “Thriller” during a picket line for their strike. #FairContractNow #CTUSEIUstrike pic.twitter.com/YLB8RzwmmE
— Alexis Goldstein 🔥 (@alexisgoldstein) October 24, 2019
YouTube version is here.
* I’m wondering what Chance thinks about this…
TCA and CAHS together, singing a rewrite of @chancetherapper “Problems” by 2nd grade teacher Lindsay Prossnitz @CTULocal1 @BrowntownLiz pic.twitter.com/Az6u0adoVM
— Jessica Siegel (@JessicaSiegel10) October 25, 2019
* No response yet from Carly Rae…
An instant-classic strike cover song from striking teachers in Chicago ♥️🔥♥️ @carlyraejepsen can you show your support for Chicago educators and share this? pic.twitter.com/Du7FoNb4Ny
— Eric Blanc (@_ericblanc) October 25, 2019
* Nice cover of a great song…
Yes, Back of the Yards High School has a strike line dance. Yes they have a Mesa Boogie half stack. Yes they rewrote the lyrics to “Seven Nation Army.” No, they still don’t have a contract @CTULocal1 #chicagoteachesstrike #PutItInWriting #faircontractnow pic.twitter.com/gSpMnpbThV
— Scott Heins (@scottheins) October 25, 2019
* But not all of the strike videos are about fun. Some contain serious messages…
From the line: last year, @CTULocal1 social worker Alexandra was responsible for 4 different south side schools. Now, she is the lone social worker for 1500 students in Marquette Park. pic.twitter.com/tmZiXywHwV
— Mary Difino (@marydifino) October 25, 2019
* And the unions themselves have produced professional videos to support their cause. Here’s one…
This is definitely the most powerful video from the @CTULocal1 and @SEIU73 strike in Chicago. It floored me. pic.twitter.com/cA8sH23p2j
— Eric Blanc (@_ericblanc) October 25, 2019
…Adding… Unforced error…
A group of 30 Chicago Public Schools athletes and students arrived at City Hall to speak with Mayor Lori Lightfoot shortly after noon on Friday.
The group, led by Simeon football players, announced its intention to show up on Wednesday. They wanted to voice their frustration over the impact the Chicago Teachers Union strike is having on CPS students and athletes.
Lightfoot left City Hall just minutes before they arrived.
“I think she’s afraid,” Simeon senior Khalyl Warren said. “She is showing fear. But it is ok. We assumed she would be here to say a couple words, say something that we wanted to hear. Something for our teachers, something for us. But if she walked away, she walked away.”
And…
A Cook County judge will rule later Friday about whether Jones College Prep cross country teams can participate in a state regional event this weekend.
The case has broad implications for other Chicago Public Schools students who also want to compete in state meets while their teachers and coaches are on strike.
About 100 students attended the hearing at the Daley Center on a complaint filed Thursday by 14 parents of the cross country students against the Illinois High School Association and the Chicago Board of Education that seeks a temporary restraining order to allow the athletes to compete in the state playoff events during the strike, including Saturday morning’s cross country regionals.
Judge Eve M. Reilly said she would issue her decision by 5 p.m.
posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 12:59 pm
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It’ll really kick off Monday, when trump will be in town to speak to police chiefs. I’ve got a feeling CPS will get a one-day reprieve as the target of CTU anger
Comment by Lester Holt’s Mustache Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 1:06 pm
Now that’s the way to strike, to dance, and the Halloween theme.
Super-privileged anti-union interests would be pretty unhappy about it, to feed into the manufactured outrage.
Comment by Grandson of Man Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 1:07 pm
Teachers are fun, creative and giving people.
The CTU leadership… ahem, not so much.
Comment by I'll say it again Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 1:07 pm
Nope. Not watching.
Spent some time with a CPS mom this morning, and I can tell you it’s not the morale of the teachers that concerns me right now.
Comment by The Big Salad Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 1:11 pm
Even on strike , the teachers are thinking of the children while performing. They are pretty darn good.
Comment by Steve Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 1:16 pm
I do support the teachers, but this is probably a core of the problem with perceptions of them going up against strong black female leaders in mayor’s office and CPS:
Teacher Racial Breakdowns
African-American: 20.7%
Asian: 3.9%
Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: 0.0%
Hispanic: 21.2%
Native American: 0.4%
White: 50.4%
Multi-Racial: 1.5%
Unknown: 1.9%
Total Teachers: 21,334
Comment by Ok Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 1:19 pm
I just keep thinking with the Thriller video that all the students that see it will think, “That’s neat. Did they make that song and dance up?”
Comment by Montrose Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 1:25 pm
This strike is going on too long and the balance is slowly, subtly, shifting away from the union. Perceptions are changing especially as parents and friends focus on the increasing lost days of schooling and the publicity over damage to individual athletes and athletic teams this prolonged strike is causing.
Comment by Responsa Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 1:44 pm
“This strike is going on too long and the balance is slowly, subtly, shifting away from the union. Perceptions are changing especially as parents and friends focus on the increasing lost days of schooling and the publicity over damage to individual athletes and athletic teams this prolonged strike is causing.”
Has any polling been done to test whether this hunch holds any water?
Comment by Montrose Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 1:51 pm
Not sure if a tribute to Thriller by pedophile Michael Jackson is the best choice for a musical performance by striking teachers given that the Chicago Teachers Union failed to participate in a major study aimed at protecting students from sexual violence.
Comment by Anonymous Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 1:58 pm
No Pete Seeger or Billy Bragg?
Comment by NIref Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 2:06 pm
Great Stuff. These are the Staff walking the picket lines not the Union negotiators. Really good way to get your message across vs civil disobedience. Hope this attitude transfers into the negotiating room. Agree that Chicago is going to be a unique perfect storm on Monday.
Comment by Peters Piece Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 2:07 pm
C’mon. Let the kids play while the adults fight it out.
Comment by Shemp Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 2:08 pm
To a kid today, the 1983 “Thriller” video is as historically remote as “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” from Disney’s Song of the South would have been to a kid in 1983.
Yikes.
Now if you need me, I’ll sitting in the dark doing Geritol shots.
– MrJM
Comment by @misterjayem Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 2:15 pm
Everyone is worried that students have been out 7 days - they were recently out 91 days and no one no one worried about them
Comment by Lakeview Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 2:41 pm
I support the strike simply because no teacher aide should have to work a second job just to survive, and we expect them to be ready every school day to help our kids learn. Give this guy a raise and i dont care if my taxes go up to do it bcz just like him I am a lifelong Chicagoan and product of CPS
Comment by AUSTINMAN Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 2:42 pm
When picketing gets boring. LOL
Comment by Alex Ander Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 2:55 pm
>To a kid today, the 1983 “Thriller” video is as historically remote as “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” from Disney’s Song of the South would have been to a kid in 1983.
Ouch. At lunch today I made a Spirograph joke and no one laughed. I’m almost sure it’s because no one was old enough to know what they were.
Comment by Earnest Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 3:05 pm
Team Lightfoot has a knack for unforced errors and interacting with CPS students. Fran Spielman tweet on 10/15:
Lucas Tobin-Trumm, 9, tried to hand-deliver a letter of support for the teachers strike to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office. But, when staffers refused to accept it, she folded it into a paper airplane and air-mailed it.
Comment by Moe Berg Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 3:14 pm
So happy to see the teachers having fun my while child is missing school for the 7th day (with no end in sight) and we struggle with child care.
Comment by CPS School Mom Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 3:40 pm
Are we allowed to support the teachers and not the union?
Comment by BeenThere Friday, Oct 25, 19 @ 3:53 pm