The city of Chicago has filed an injunction against the current teacher strike, calling on a judge to declare it illegal under the city’s collective bargaining laws. One of the arguments the city puts forward in its legal brief is that the strike is illegal because it is endangering the students by making it possible for them to be out on the city’s dangerous streets.
And who is responsible for keeping the streets safe? That would be … the city, as it bluntly acknowledges on page 8 of the motion seeking a restraining order against the strike:
In other words the city of Chicago is literally arguing that its own streets are so dangerous that merely preventing children from going to school constitutes a serious threat to their lives.
