# Chicago Teachers Union threatening a strike

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-teachers-union-threatening-a-strike/739425>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 4, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-teachers-union-threatening-a-strike/739425 "2015-12-04T17:10:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-teachers-union-threatening-a-strike/739425/181 "2015-12-21T19:14:11Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> A bankers’ group would not be a union. Who are they supposed to be collectively bargaining with? I agree that their _lobbying_ efforts should be treated the same way, but a union performs a function than a group of banks cannot. You might as well ask whether a bank and a police officer should have the same rights.

Well, yeah, obviously a banking group doesn’t have, or need, collective-bargaining rights.

Other than that though, what?

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