Chicago teachers union chief to parents on possible strike: 'Be prepared'

If language used Monday by the leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools to explain their positions on a looming teachers strike is any indication of a deal getting done soon, well, perhaps best not to hold your breath.

"They want to stand on us, put their boots on our necks and then tell us we have to like it," CTU President Karen Lewis said at a news conference on Monday.

Minutes later, CPS CEO Forrest Claypool stepped to a lectern at the CPS central office in the Loop and denounced such rhetoric before offering some of his own to slam the logic used by the labor union's leaders: "It's sort of an Alice in Wonderland world within the CTU these days."

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