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Strikes

Public school teachers rally at Chicago's Congress Plaza to protest against billionaire Hyatt Hotel mogul Penny Pritzker, who is also a member of the Chicago Board of Education on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Protesters said that $5.2 million in Tax Increment Financing (TIF) funds being used to build a new Hyatt hotel in Hyde Park would be better spent on meeting basic student needs. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)

Chicago teacher: Why we're on strike

Roger Bonair-Agard
ANALYSIS - A Chicago school teacher explains why educators in that city took to the picket lines...
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Striking Chicago public school teachers and their supporters rally before a march down Michigan Avenue on September 13, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. More than 26,000 teachers and support staff walked off the job on September 10 after the Chicago Teachers Union failed to reach an agreement with the city on compensation, benefits and job security. With about 350,000 students, the Chicago school district is the third largest in the United States. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

No deal in Chicago teachers' strike

Renita D. Young
theGRIO REPORT - The Chicago Teachers Union on Sunday suspended a vote on whether or not to end its strike...
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View of demonstrators outside the Hotel Claridge where, in the wake of the assassination of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, stalled talks between the striking sanitation union and city officials were resumed, Memphis, Tennessee, April 6, 1968. (Photo by Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)

MLK, the 2012 campaign and the American dream

Lee A. Saunders
OPINION - Dr. King was a longtime champion of the labor movement, and he died in 1968 while marching with sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., all members of AFSCME Local 1733...
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