Chicago (Reuters) - Thousands of striking Chicago Teachers will march again on Saturday to keep pressure on the mayor Rahm Emanuel to packing up an agreement with their union, so they can end a blow, has closed the country's third-largest school district for a week.
"Standing with the Chicago Teachers Rally" may be the largest demonstrations against Emanuel's education reform since the strike began in Chicago on September 10.
From neighboring countries trade union supporters gathered in Chicago, in March 29,000 union teachers and support staff adding many.
Organizers said they hope the opponent in March last year, mass rallies to protest in Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker's efforts to curb the power of unions. The Wisconsin protests unsuccessful, but attracted hundreds of thousands of government workers, such as teachers.
Emanuel angered Chicago trying the RAM's proposal to fundamentally reform teacher performance evaluation and weaken labor protection Teachers closure of schools or teachers of poor academic performance.
A difficult conversation before the high school chemistry teacher, Karen Lewis led the first strike of the union held in 25 years, leaving 350,000 Chicago students, no school this week.
Emanuel has retreated from some of his proposed reforms, although the details of what he has agreed with the trade unions has not been announced. For the mayor and the union's bargaining on Friday announced a provisional agreement, may lead to the end of the strike.
But the union is Emanuel cautious, union leaders Lewis is known as a "bully" and "liar" on Saturday, March in order to emphasize their determination.
If all goes well in negotiations between Emanuel's Chicago school board and the union this weekend, Lewis said, on Sunday, she will require about 800 trade union activists, suspend the strike, and on Monday morning, The teachers will return to the classroom.
"They (union members) are very suspicious of you understand, we have been burned to the (school) board of directors in the past, you have to understand that we want to make sure that all my dotted and T's crossed," Lewis Friday's news conference said.
The strike is the nation's largest one-year labor dispute, and to stimulate a national workers' movement. It also flashing light of a fierce debate on how to reform the struggling urban schools nationwide.
Both sides agreed that the Chicago public schools are not doing well. Poor student performance on standardized tests in math and reading, there are more than 75% and 90%, in some affluent suburban Chicago high school, high school graduation rate is 60%.
Chicago's non-elected school board, which is stacked on behalf of the enterprise, such as the Penny Pritzker, the implementation of Chicago the billionaire Pritzker Architecture Enterprise Group and a major fund-raising activities, U.S. President Barack Obama criticized unions. They said the board is trying to privatization and corporatization of public schools system.
They criticized Chicago's efforts to open up more public funding of non-union charter schools, sometimes encountered philanthropist, and some of the poor performance of traditional communities, public schools be closed.
There are many well-known support of the mayor and politicians in the Democratic Party, former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on Obama confrontation staff, exposed the rift. But the support of other Democrats and trade unions, which are the main financial supporters of the party and the need to help Obama in his campaign for re-election efforts.
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