The Chicago Teachers Union is stirring the pot yet again, calling on its members essentially to cut class to attend May Day rallies around the city. 

Marathon Blog reports

While the Chicago Teachers Union isn't calling for an illegal strike on Monday, as it threatened to do, it is asking that its members attend that afternoon's Chicago May Day march, activities surrounding it begin with school rallies at 7:30am. 

The CTU we all know are "for the kids," but how can they be for those kids when they are rabble-rousing on May 1. Yes, May Day 2017 is a school day.

Critics of my blogging, which to my astonishment are many, casually dismiss such attacks as heartless. After all, they say, aren't you entitled to vacation days, floater days, and sick days in your private sector job? Sure I am! But when I'm not at work when I'm supposed to be, my employer doesn't call in a substitute--at taxpayer expense--to handle my duties.
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If not enough substitute teachers are available to cover those class cutting CTU teachers on Monday, Chicago Public Schools will have to shut down for the day. That means tens of thousands of parents will have to call off from work because they'll have to stay home and watch over their children.

According to the blogger, Barack Obama's friend and former Maoist Fred Klonsky is praising the Chicago Teachers Union for encouraging its members to put the kids last and go on their May Day marches: 

"Monday is May Day," Klonsky began on his own blog post. "Chicago is where it started."

"In recent years our May Day march has focused on immigrant rights. Chicago is a city of immigrants. We are a proud sanctuary city. And a union town." He then proudly admitted that the CTU is "militant" and goes on to explain how teachers can exploit a loophole in their contracts, or simply disregard them all together, in order to march:  

The Chicago Teachers Union is among our most militant labor organizations. In response to the imposition of furlough days and a threat to close schools weeks early, the CTU had considered calling a one-day strike on May 1st.

But it has changed its plans.

Naturally, the CTU has endorsed the May Day immigrant rights march.

Monday is a scheduled work day at CPS. So CPS CEO Forrest Claypool went to the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board and asked them to issue an injunction against teachers taking a personal day on Monday.

The IELRB gave him the injunction

Now, the collective bargaining agreement between CPS and the Chicago Teachers Union is pretty specific about the use of personal days. It says they can be used for personal business.

The IELRB gave him the injunction Now, the collective bargaining agreement between CPS and the Chicago Teachers Union is pretty specific about the use of personal days. It says they can be used for personal business. 

On Monday, members of the CTU who choose to will be marching for immigrant rights as part of May Day in Chicago. IELRB or no IELRB. 

"After all, what’s more personal to a union teacher than May Day in Chicago?" he concludes.