{"id":209,"date":"2026-07-26T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2026-07-26T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:52:07","slug":"our-podcast-is-live-this-week-glennonmarke-and-maryfiorito-joined-us-to-discuss-the-ctu-bargaining-unit-joining-the-chicago-news-guild-and-ald-byron-sigcho-lopez-being-tossed-from-the-4t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"\u200bOur podcast is live. This week, @GlennonMarkE and @maryfiorito joined us to discuss the CTU bargaining unit joining the Chicago News Guild and Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez being tossed from the 4th congressional race. Tune in for another great discussion. https:\/\/music.amazon.co.uk\/podcasts\/1eb661cd-230b-4d61-a614-a5892c38061f\/episodes\/c477e312-fe4b-4c2d-a7d6-b0ff5b775531\/chicago-contrarian-the-podcast-the-ctu-joins-the-chicago-news-guild-byron-booted-from-the-ballot-chicago-weighs-a-settlement-to-two-convicted-killers\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our podcast is live.<\/p>\n<p>This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/GlennonMarkE\" title=\"Mark Glennon\">@GlennonMarkE<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/maryfiorito\" title=\"Mary H. FioRito\">@maryfiorito<\/a> joined us to discuss the CTU bargaining unit joining the Chicago News Guild and Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez being tossed from the 4th congressional race.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in for another great discussion.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.co.uk\/podcasts\/1eb661cd-230b-4d61-a614-a5892c38061f\/episodes\/c477e312-fe4b-4c2d-a7d6-b0ff5b775531\/chicago-contrarian-the-podcast-the-ctu-joins-the-chicago-news-guild-byron-booted-from-the-ballot-chicago-weighs-a-settlement-to-two-convicted-killers\">music.amazon.co.uk\/podcasts\/\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Link<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.co.uk\/podcasts\/1eb661cd-230b-4d61-a614-a5892c38061f\/episodes\/c477e312-fe4b-4c2d-a7d6-b0ff5b775531\/chicago-contrarian-the-podcast-the-ctu-joins-the-chicago-news-guild-byron-booted-from-the-ballot-chicago-weighs-a-settlement-to-two-convicted-killers\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/pic\/card_img%2F2081417114485723136%2FaE-8hWLK%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D800x419\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>The CTU joins the Chicago News Guild, Byron booted from t&#8230;<\/b><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CTU&#8217;s bargaining unit was certified by the Chicago News Guild. Why would a union representing journalists form an alliance with the teacher&#8217;s union? The Bombastic Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.co.uk\/podcasts\/1eb661cd-230b-4d61-a614-a5892c38061f\/episodes\/c477e312-fe4b-4c2d-a7d6-b0ff5b775531\/chicago-contrarian-the-podcast-the-ctu-joins-the-chicago-news-guild-byron-booted-from-the-ballot-chicago-weighs-a-settlement-to-two-convicted-killers\">music.amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our podcast is live. This week, @GlennonMarkE and @maryfiorito joined us to discuss the CTU bargaining unit joining the Chicago News Guild and Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez being tossed from the 4th congressional race. Tune in for another great discussion. music.amazon.co.uk\/podcasts\/\u2026 Link The CTU joins the Chicago News Guild, Byron booted from t&#8230; The CTU&#8217;s bargaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnn-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}