The Chicago Teachers Union wants a new contract. Among other things, CTU President Stacy Davis Gates wants salary increases of 9% per year over the next five years, through 2028. That would bring these teachers’ salaries to $144,620 per year.
Ordinary residents’ current income is $65,250 at the 50th percentile and $143,550 at the 90th percentile.
These top 10%-er wannabes aren’t producing commensurate with their current incomes, though.
…only 21% of the city’s eighth graders being proficient readers, according to the last Nation’s Report Card….
Gates again [elision in the original]:
It will cost $50 billion and three cents…. Yes it will, and so what, that’s audacity.
No, that’s teachers union greed. But since it’s negotiating with itself—formally they’ll be negotiating with Chicago’s government—it’ll get all of what it’s demanding.