BY ERIC ZORN | E-mail | About | RSS  « How to make your friends
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thread on the 'strike of choice' »  Sunday, September 09, 2012
Strike watch  Alexander Russo, whose ChicagoNow blog District
299 follows the Chicago Public Schools very closely, has created
this Twitter feed on strike-related issues as we count down to
the zero hour.  As of this morning, Russo was "strangely sure,"
as I was, that the parties would settle before the midnight
strike deadline.  I'm less sure now that it's past 6 p.m. with
no word, but I'm only at 50/50. You?    Twitter feed maybe but
the blog has zero current content  Please strike. Expose
yourself for the industrial union that you are.  Maybe if the
"leaders" of the Chicago Teachers Union could speak without
making basic grammar mistakes we would have a little more
respect for them! My gosh, the leaders do not even know the
difference between "is" and "are" and "a large amount" and
"many". Yet it is this group that thinks