Chicago Public Schools teachers voting on whether to strike
Posted December 08, 2015 10:00 pm
Thousands of Chicago teachers are expected to begin voting today on whether to go on strike.
And if at least 75 percent of Chicago Teachers Union members approve after a three-day voting period, the 27,000 members will have positioned themselves to legally walk off the job in several months.
CTU President Karen Lewis has said she'd like to avoid a repeat of the 2012 teachers strike that ground the country's third-largest school system a halt, forcing parents to scramble for child care during seven days of missed classes. That year, nearly 90 percent of teachers voted to strike.
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