What is the definition of “fair share” exactly? 

Obama’s chief of staff a republican? Jesus, dude. You guys just twist yourselves into knots trying to figure out some way to blame Chicago on republicans but you can't. The democratic party has been a shit stain on this city for years and they are putting in practice just about every theoretical thing you would blame…

Liberal nonsense. Why do charter schools do better? Teacher, executive, parent, and child accountability. Education success is not measured in how much money per pupil (ie salaries). The Teacher Union is evil and uses children for their own greed. Think about the people you grew up with who are teachers. Did they…

Chicago teachers get tenure after two years, pension plans, good benefits, and average salaries between 75 and 95K. The salaries are fine. The classroom conditions (40 kids in a class), lack of resources (some schools don’t have nurses or counselors or librarians), and unjust allocation of spending that hurts students…

This strike is a joke. The city is broke, the residents pay absurd property taxes already, and the deal offered is more than fair (certainly more fair than the teachers’ deserve.) I love Chicago and am so glad I got out when I did.

Fascinating that HamNo lives to write another day. His byline is easily the one most associated with Splinter, for better or worse (I say worse, as I legitimately loved most of the content there with the exception of HamNo’s ill-informed masturbatory drivel). The person perhaps most responsible for the voice and…

Yeah, real good look for the CTU to be doing this when the City has a $800+ million budget hole (and a gargantuan pension hole). I am pro-teacher and pro-union but fuck Jesse Sharkey and CTU. How about give up the raises offered for your “concerns” about the children. Affordable housing in a goddamn teachers’…

The sad part of this issue as a long-time resident and property owner in Chicago, is we will likely see another wave of resident departures as more & more young people leave Chicago & Illinois for communities that eliminate corruption & nepotism while not spending themselves into an eternity of debt that can never…

It’s cute how HamNo thinks businesspeople are always acting out of self-interest, but when teachers go on strike, it’s “for the children.” Teacher strikes are about teachers. I don’t mean that pejoratively. Unions exist to support their members. (It’s like how people are perpetually surprised to find that police…

This strike is as much about caring for students as the GM strike was about a love for automobiles. 

How could all of the public labor strife, gun violence, racism, corruption,segregated neighborhoods and pension dysfunction happen in Chicago? It’s been completely run by democrats for decades. This should be a liberal utopia.

This will be interesting to watch....if it’s true the average teacher makes $71,000 a year, I don’t think they will be getting a ton of sympathy for this strike. $100,000/year average salary for a city that is broke seems like a huge stretch.

Hmm... once the City files for bankruptcy all these union gains will be wiped out... and then some.

Just to be a contrarian bastard to your headline:

The idea that teachers unions are pro-students is such laughable twaddle. In California, teachers fought for and won a school evaluation system that makes it more difficult to evaluate school performance, The teachers unions fought every attempt by the Obama administration to institute basic reforms. In 2014, a Los…

Juries are now 1/2 in trials involving people affiliated with the Bills.

Hat looks fresh post-fall as well. Seriously, F this guy.

I was once on an escalator going down to a DC Metro station when some guy slid by me and a pack of people on the hand rail, and said "Out of the way bitches" as he passed. When I got to the bottom of the escalator the dude had his shin bone poking out of his leg. That was satisfying.

Now the middle class is spoiled too? I guess there aren't many of us left so I didn't notice.

what crystal ball allowed you to see what "class" he is?