Chicago Hostage Episode Over- Teachers Go Back To Work

From the Chicago Tribune: The Chicago Teachers Union’s House of Delegates decided this afternoon to end the city’s first teacher strike in 25 years and return more than 350,000 students to the classroom Wednesday.
The voice vote was taken after some 800 delegates convened at a union meeting hall near Chinatown to discuss and debate a tentative contract.  Union leaders had already signed off on the agreement with Chicago Public Schools.
"We said we couldn't solve all the problems. . .and it was time to suspend the strike," CTU President Karen Lewis said at a news conference after the vote.
“The issue is, we cannot get a perfect contract. There’s no such thing as a contract that will make all of us” happy, Lewis said. 
But “do we stay on strike forever until every little thing we want can be gotten?” she said....
At a news conference at Walter Payton College Prep, Mayor Rahm Emanuel praised the deal, highlighting how he believes a longer school day and year would help Chicago public school students get the education they need and deserve.
"This settlement  is an honest compromise, it means returning our schools to their primary purpose, the education of our children," Emanuel said. "It means a new day and a direction for the Chicago Public Schools. In this contract we gave our children a seat at the table. In past negotiations taxpayers paid more but our children got less. This time our taxpayers are paying less and our kids are getting more."  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-todays-assignment-seal-deal-with-chicago-teachers-20120918,0,7319589.story
This whole strike was a sham.  The only reason why the union went back is tomorrow the City of Chicago was going to court and the union would have ordered them back to work.
In the end, the union deal will cost Chicago taxpayers millions and millions of dollars, money they don't have because they are already facing budget shortfalls of over $60,000,000.
Further President Obama showed that he could not care 1 little bit about the kids of Chicago, where they lost 10 days of school.  He could have said something, but he was silent.  We know where Obama stands on education and it ain't with the children.
So, it's nice that the kids are going back to school tomorrow to get their inadequate education from the member thugs of the teacher union of Chicago.