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Sunday, September 9, 2012

''Chicago teachers strike looms as negotiations enter final hours''

From LA Times

''The clock’s ticking in Chicago, where teachers union representatives and school administrators have yet to agree on a new contract.

If they can't find a compromise before midnight Sunday, 29,000 teachers and school workers might not show up for class.

A strike in the country's third-largest public school district would be the nation’s first major teachers strike since 2006. The controversy threatens to strain relations between Chicago’s Democratic mayor, Rahm Emanuel, and the party’s union backers two months before a contentious presidential election.''

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