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Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. This is part two of a two-part series on progressive city politics

in two big American cities, Philadelphia and Chicago. The Chicago Teachers Union or C-T-U

has transformed the politics of the city of Chicago. In the decade and a half since a group of

teachers organized within the C-T-U known as the caucus of rank and file educators took over their

union, the C-T-U has repeatedly gone on strike, opposed austerity, built a political organization

called United Working Families that has reshaped electoral politics in the city, and established

itself as a major fighting force for Chicago's working class as a whole. Nowhere has the union's

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