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CTU president Karen Lewis accused CPS leaders and the mayor of engaging in a "smear campaign" against teachers, raising the possibility for the city's first teachers' strike in 25 years.

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Video: Chicago Teachers Union
Files 10-Day Strike Notice
The Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Teachers Union filed a 10-day strike notice on Wednesday in an attempt to put additional pressure on Chicago Public Schools negotiators in ongoing contract talks.

At a packed news conference Wednesday, CTU president Karen Lewis accused CPS leaders and the mayor of engaging in a "smear campaign" against teachers, raising the possibility for the city's first teachers' strike in 25 years.

"It has been insult after insult after insult. Enough is enough," Lewis said.

By filing the required 10-day notice Wednesday with the CPS school board and the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, teachers are eligible to strike beginning on Sept. 10, the start of the second week of school for the majority of CPS students.

The union's House of Delegates will meet Thursday where they will review the district's latest contract offer and likely set a strike date.

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Editor's Note: The State of Illinois and the City of Chicago are in "the red" so far that they have exhausted their borrowing ability in excves of their ability to pay current pensioners...Yet the greed that runs through the veins of union operatives insists, "I don't care if you don't have it, get it, because I want it." These people suck.

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