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CTU says hopes 'dashed' for quick end to strike after letter from mayor, bad day at bargaining table
The Chicago Teachers Union said Monday night that negotiations took a turn for the worse, and said their hopes were “dashed” for a quick resolution to the strike as it headed for its sixth day — and fourth day of canceled classes for 300,000 students.
“It’s stuck,” CTU vice president Stacy Davis Gates told reporters outside Malcolm X College on the Near West Side, where negotiations wrapped up more than an hour earlier expected.
President Jesse Sharkey said it wasn’t a good day at the table and he wasn’t sure there would be an end to the walkout any time soon.
“What happened today, in the letter and speech, dashed my hopes,” he said.
Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/10/21/20924963/chicago-teacher-contract-strike-updates-cps