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Teachers at more than 200 Chicago schools overwhelmingly favor a plan to walk off the job in protest, Chicago Teachers Union Boss Karen Lewis said. Lewis said a number of schools have taken “mock strike votes,” and the majority favor work stoppage, NBC Chicago reports. She says that teacher’s are being treated with “disrespect.”
Foundation President Mark Mix recently participated in a panel discussion titled “Ask The Experts: Teacher Appreciation Week? How Teachers Unions Got in the Way.”
"Fill the boot". a charity campaign designed to raise money for children with muscular dystrophy, is actually filling the pockets of union bosses instead.
“The PERB should condemn these attacks on independent-minded teachers, and allow Gompers educators to have their long-overdue vote on whether to remove the union officials who are attacking the very educators they claim to represent,” added Mix.