If Chicago does strike, teachers around the country will be closely watching parents' response to a walkout based on the unions' 'social justice' agenda beyond state school funding or teachers' pay, experts said.
A threatened strike by Chicago teachers would test a strategy employed by a growing number of urban teachers unions convinced that transforming contentious contract talks into discussions about class sizes and student services wins public support and can be a difference maker at the bargaining table.
"Right now, you're hard pressed to find a teacher's union that says we only want to bargain for the economic interest of our members," said Robert Bruno, a University of Illinois labor professor who has studied and written about the 2012 Chicago strike."And that's why it's so hard to get a settlement."
The Chicago union wasn't the first to use that strategy. But its leadership, including then-President Karen Lewis, acted when teachers nationwide felt unions' political power and clout had been severely weakened, said John Rogers, a professor of education at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"It is about much more than pay," Lee said."It's about ensuring that every student, not just a select few, has a great public education." "Advocating for and winning smaller class sizes means adding teachers, adding additional staff," Nettler said."So it does feed back into this question of overall compensation from a district or administrator's perspective."
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