Chicago .... only in Chicago

I have been doing some looking in to the strike in Chicago. Below are some comments I found on a comment site. None of these are my commentary, only comments I copied.

"Chicago teachers make $76,000.00 per year."

"Plus, only work about 8 months out of the year and have gold-plated perks, free health care and pension plan no similarly situated private sector employee receives."

"Here is another tidbit, 40% of the teachers send their own kids to PRIVATE SCHOOLS."

"They are one of the top paid teachers groups in the nation yet they have one of the shortest school day and have the least amount of days per year."

"Honestly, I don't understand how a group of collage educated people like teachers need an outside organization, a union, to speak for them. I had worked at a company years ago which had an employees union after about two years a bid came up on the day shift, I bid on the position, I had been working a night shift at the time, and was awarded the position, the union fought my being given the position claiming there were men with more seniority who had bid for the position. The company fought the union and I was given the position on my ability to do the job over the seniority of others who had bid on it. I found out early in life that I didn't need any one else to do my talking for me and that the union was a hindrance to my working hard for a promotion. The union was good at protecting the jobs of the slackers, those that were habitually late and the drinkers. These, I found, were the ones who gladly payed weekly union dues so as to protect their weekly paycheck. When I left that position, I never worked for a company with a union again and did quite well for myself right up until the time I retired."