Chicago teachers have threatened to strike. The teachers complain that the class sizes are too large, the hours are too long, the pay is too low, the benefits are being cut and the infrastructure is crumbling. Who can disagree with them on that?
The Democratic Party is the only political organization that even talks the talk about funding education. What kind of back stabbing is this anyway? They should be threatening to stay away from the Democratic Party dialing-for-dollars phone banks. That would scare the be-jesus out of Rahm Emanuel.
We need more strikes. Strikes are a good thing- a very basic form of democracy and direct participation in addressing grievances. How else can people without a voice be heard in this political world where money talks and the more money you have the louder you can talk?
The garbage workers, truck drivers, teachers, police and firefighters, laborers and factory workers have no voice- unless they all yell together. That’s what a strike does. It makes a small voice large. Then we hear it. We may get annoyed, even inconvenienced by it, but we hear it.
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