Chicago’s picket line-walking public school teachers cannot be
very happy with
today’s unsigned editorial from the liberal tastemakers at
The New York Times:

Teachers’ strikes, because they hurt children and their
families, are never a good idea. The strike that has roiled the
civic climate in Chicago — and left 350,000 children without
classes — seems particularly senseless because it is partly a
product of a personality clash between the blunt mayor, Rahm
Emanuel, and the tough Chicago Teachers Union president, Karen
Lewis. Beyond that, the strike is based on union discontent with
sensible policy changes — including the teacher evaluation system
required by Illinois law — that are increasingly popular across the
country and are unlikely to be rolled back, no matter how long the
union stays out.

Which side are you on, New York Times?

I also couldn’t help but notice the contrast between those words
and this
June 6 Times editorial attacking Wisconsin Gov. Scott
Walker for his efforts at bringing reform to that state’s
public-sector workers, which the Times simply denounced as
an attempt  “to break the unions.”

The PR campaign for the Chicago teachers strike is not off to a
great start.