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Speaker 1: For months, the Chicago Teachers Union has forbidden their teachers

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Speaker 1: to show up at city schools because of the coronavirus,

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Speaker 1: despite the fact that schools do not contribute to the

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Speaker 1: spread of the illness, according to the CDC. So lately,

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Speaker 1: the Chicago Teachers Union has been negotiating with school administrators

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Speaker 1: who want to begin the process of reopening the schools

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Speaker 1: on a gradual basis, something other cities and states have

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Speaker 1: been doing for months. But on Sunday, the rank and

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Speaker 1: file democrats excuse me, the rank and file union members

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Speaker 1: and voted overwhelmingly to give administrators the collective middle finger.

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Speaker 1: They said they would not return to the classroom despite

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Speaker 1: an order requiring ten thousand teachers to show up this week.

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Speaker 1: Chicago Mayor Laurie Lightweight is pleading with the union to

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Speaker 1: return to work, to no avail. Thousands of Chicagoans have

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Speaker 1: been thrown out of work, many evicted because of the shutdown.

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Speaker 1: Scores of small businesses have closed their doors for good.

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Speaker 1: Parents who can't afford to pay somebody to watch their

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Speaker 1: kids are forced to remain at home, can't go to

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Speaker 1: work or look for work. All the while these union

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Speaker 1: members have been getting their paychecks and they still refuse

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Speaker 1: to go back to work. This is what your Democrat parties,

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Speaker 1: endless shutdowns are doing to America, and they couldn't care less.

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Speaker 1: This is exactly what they want to happen.