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Thursday, Sep 6, 2018 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Tribune…
The Chicago Teachers Union has a new president and vice president.
Jesse Sharkey has officially taken over the labor group’s top post for the time being, following a Wednesday vote from the union’s governing body. The new vice president is Stacy Davis Gates, formerly the union’s political director.
The shift in leadership follows the retirement of former CTU President Karen Lewis, who announced her departure in June amid continued health problems. That cleared the way for Sharkey’s formal takeover of the union’s top job and Davis Gates’ nomination to replace him as second-in-command.
Both leaders will be running for office again soon, as union officers are expected to face some competition in an election by the entire CTU membership next year.
Sharkey and Bruce Rauner appeared on WTTW together after the 2012 teachers’ strike and had a memorable debate. Click here to watch it. Explains a lot about both men.
* Sharkey during the strike…
- Reality Check - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:30 pm:
Bruce may think he’s tough in that biker costume, but he doesn’t have my Terminator shades.
- Huh? - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:31 pm:
What’s Happy Gilmore doing at a teacher strike?
- NIU Grad - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:32 pm:
Just from watching that video: goodness gracious, he has visibly aged since 2012.
- Keyrock - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:33 pm:
Hey. Give me a beat.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:37 pm:
“Twist it. Shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it… baby… “
- Rabid - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:38 pm:
You know what? Carpetbagger Rauner don’t even live in Chicago
- Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:39 pm:
“You gotta fight! For your right! To Parrrrrr, er, fair wages!”
- Echo The Bunnyman - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:41 pm:
As a former educator… Rauner isn’t entirely wrong. The Union is for it’s members, not the kids. That’s the truth and it’s the purpose. As horrible it is for Rauner to pitch “simple” solutions to complicated problems, it’s just as bad to listen how we were on strike for the “kids”.. Yeah, sure.
- Huh? - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:42 pm:
Yeah, I’m doing a Ray Raynor imitation, I’m down to the last to notes that tell me what’s up next.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:43 pm:
“First Rahm… Rauner is next.”
- A Jack - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:43 pm:
Hosts la vista, Brucie.
- Huh? - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:44 pm:
a 1, a 2, a 3 - take me out to the ball park …
- A Jack - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:46 pm:
Chance and I are gonna rock Rauner’s world.
- wordslinger - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:49 pm:
–”Hit the road, Rahm, and don’t ya come back no more, no more, no more, no more….”
- Honeybear - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:50 pm:
When the unions inspiration through the workers blood shall run.
- PublicServant - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:50 pm:
“Oooooh Oh Pretty Woman”
- Anonimity - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 1:53 pm:
You gotta fight, for your right, to collectively baarrrgaaaiiinnn!
- City Zen - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 2:10 pm:
The Gerald Ford of union leaders.
- TinyDancer(FKASue) - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 2:48 pm:
Unchain my heart, Rahmmie where did you go?
Unchain my heart, ’cause we can’t fight you no mo.
- Marty - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 2:51 pm:
“CTU’s 1%” Living in a $1.5 million home, yards from Lake Michigan, CTU finally has their own 1%er.
- 32nd Ward Roscoe Village - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 3:18 pm:
Mr. Sharkey, former singer for Sha-Na-Na, taking the microphone again in his new role as union head.
- Arthur Andersen - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 3:28 pm:
“Here’s lookin’ at ya, Schoolhouse Rock”
- Anonymous - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 3:36 pm:
“I’ll be back.”
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 3:44 pm:
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye.
- Aimtomisbehave - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 3:51 pm:
We are the school’s shufflin’ crew, shufflin’on down, teachin to you.
- Jocko - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 4:44 pm:
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Turn and face the strange…guy running things.
- Taxedoutwest - Thursday, Sep 6, 18 @ 5:46 pm:
“You put your right….I mean your left foot in, you take your left foot out, you put your left foot in and you shake it all about…”
- NorthsideNoMore - Friday, Sep 7, 18 @ 7:48 am:
“As a CTU leader I now have more than enough time to pursue my music. A one a two and a three Hit its boys”